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Book Synopsis The Idea of Progress (Classic Reprint) by : William Ralph Inge
Download or read book The Idea of Progress (Classic Reprint) written by William Ralph Inge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Idea of Progress Hesiod. In the golden age Dike or Astraea wandered about the earth freely; in the silver age her visits became fewer, and in the brazen age she set out for heaven and became the constellation Virgo. Perhaps Horace had read the lament of the goddess: 'what a race the golden Sires have left - worse than their fathers and your offspring will be baser still.' In the third century after Christ, when civilization was really crumbling, Pagans and Christians join in a chorus of woe. On the other side, the triumphs of man over nature are celebrated by the great tragedians, and the Introduction to the First Book of Thucydides sketches the past history of Greece in the spirit of the nineteenth century. Lucretius has delighted our anthropologists by his brilliant and by no means idealized description of savage life, and it is to him that we owe the blessed word Progress in its modern sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by J. Bury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth The present attempt to trace the genesis and growth of the idea in broad outline is a purely historical inquiry, and any discussion of the great issue which is involved lies outside its modest scope. Occasional criticisms on particular forms which the creed of Progress assumed, or on arguments which were used to support it, are not intended as a judgment on its general validity. I may, however, make two observations here. The doubts which Mr. Balfour expressed nearly thirty years ago, in an Address delivered at Glasgow, have not, so far as I know, been answered. And it is probable that many people, to whom six years ago the notion of a sudden decline or break-up of our western civilisa tion, as a result not of cosmic forces but of its own development, would have appeared almost fantastic, will feel much less confident to-day, notwithstanding the fact that the leading nations of the world have instituted a league of peoples for the prevention of war, the measure to which so many high priests of Progress have looked forward as meaning a long stride forward on the road to Utopia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis History of the Idea of Progress by : Robert Nisbet
Download or read book History of the Idea of Progress written by Robert Nisbet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Book Synopsis The Idea of Progress by : Charles Van Doren
Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by Charles Van Doren and published by New York : F. A. Praeger. This book was released on 1967 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Secret of Progress (Classic Reprint) by : W. Cunningham
Download or read book The Secret of Progress (Classic Reprint) written by W. Cunningham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret of Progress Buckle1 regarded it as clear that militarism and high intellectual development were not compatible: till recently, many people were prepared to believe that warfare was alien to the interest of civilised peoples and could only occur among half civilised or backward races. But this war has shown that these hopes were vain, and that the last result of civilisation was not to render war impossible, but to give the means of carrying it out on a vastly extended scale. The increase of knowledge and of power over nature, and the sense of the benefits of intercourse and inter-communication have not sufficed to give us any immunity from war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Civilization Progress (Classic Reprint) by : John Beattie Crozier
Download or read book Civilization Progress (Classic Reprint) written by John Beattie Crozier and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civilization Progress It were tedious to the reader were I to recount here the various mischances - want of stereotyping, etc. - which have kept this work out of print for more than three years, in the face of a steadily increasing public demand; but in issuing a new edition it is necessary, perhaps, that I should offer some remarks on the alterations and additions which I have deemed it expedient to make in the original text. The alterations are few, being limited chiefly to the titles of one or two of the chapters, my object being to enable the reader to see more clearly, and at a glance, the essential connexions of the successive chapters in a work, the subject-matter of which is so wide and complex that the approaches to it must of necessity be more or less circuitous and involved. And accordingly, for 'How is Justice done?' the original title first chapter of the Second part, I have substituted 'How is Civilization possible?'; and for 'The End of Government?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Progress (Classic Reprint) by : Grant Maus
Download or read book Progress (Classic Reprint) written by Grant Maus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Progress For the sake of brevity, in Progress I have described what in effect would be a direct political revolution such as, if attempted in America, prob. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Soul of Progress (Classic Reprint) by : J. Edward Mercer
Download or read book The Soul of Progress (Classic Reprint) written by J. Edward Mercer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul of Progress A preface should be brief. On the whole it seems best that it should not be apologetic. I content myself, therefore, with giving a succinct account of the aims I have had in View while writing these lectures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Primitivism and the Idea of Progress by : Lois Whitney
Download or read book Primitivism and the Idea of Progress written by Lois Whitney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Primitivism and the Idea of Progress: In English Popular Literature of the Eighteenth Century The complex of inter-related ideas to which the his torians of literature and philosophy have given the namec of primitivism' is at once a philosophy of history and a theory of values, moral or aesthetic or both. The two elements of it are, indeed, logically separable, and have sometimes occurred separately in the history of Western thought; and the motives which have led to the acceptance of the one are not necessarily those which have generated the other. But from at least the fifth century B. C. They have, for sufficiently comprehensible reasons, usually been associated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Life of Reason, Or the Phases of Human Progress (Classic Reprint) by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Life of Reason, Or the Phases of Human Progress (Classic Reprint) written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Reason, or the Phases of Human Progress Arts are instincts bred and reared in the Open, creative habits acquired in the light of reason. Consciousness accompanies their for mation; a certain uneasiness or desire and a more or less definite conception of what is wanted often precedes their full organisation. That the need should be felt before the means for satisfying it have been found has led the unre ecting to imagine that in art the need produces the discovery and the idea the work. Causes at best are lightly assigned by mortals, and this par ticular superstition is no worse than any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Book Synopsis The Secret of Progress (Classic Reprint) by : W. Cunningham
Download or read book The Secret of Progress (Classic Reprint) written by W. Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret of Progress Gress and the reason of the insecurity which attends it, we have also been helped to see in what direction we may look for a possible solution of the difficulties. Individual freedom and efficient organisation are both preserved in self-discipline. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Progress of the Century (Classic Reprint) by : Alfred Russel Wallace
Download or read book The Progress of the Century (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred Russel Wallace and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Progress of the Century If we say there is a limit-the ultimate atom - then, as all size is comparative, we can imagine a being to whom this atom seems as large as an apple or even a house does to us; and we then find it quite unthink able that this mass of matter should be in its nature absolutely indivisible even by an infinite force. It follows that all explanations of phenomena can only be partial explanations. They can inform us of the last change or the last series of changes which brought about the actual conditions now existing, and they can often enable us to predict future changes to a limited extent; but both the infinite past and the remote future are alike beyond our powers. Yet the explanations that the theory of evolution gives us are none the less real and none the less important, especially when we compare its teachings with the wild guesses or the total ignorance of the thinkers of earlier ages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Human Progress and the Inward Light (Classic Reprint) by : Thomas Hodgkin
Download or read book Human Progress and the Inward Light (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Hodgkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Human Progress and the Inward Light The Lectureship has a two-fold purpose first, to interpret further to the members of the Society of Friends their Message and Mission; and secondly, to bring before the public the spirit, the aims and the fundamental principles, of the Friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Evolution and the Need of Atonement (Classic Reprint) by : Stewart Andrew McDowall
Download or read book Evolution and the Need of Atonement (Classic Reprint) written by Stewart Andrew McDowall and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evolution and the Need of Atonement As the title indicates, the main object of this book is not to offer a new theory of the Atonement. Rather it is intended to Show that when the origin and history of man are studied from the scientific, and especially the biological side, the spiritual life, its partial failure, and the need for Atonement, far from receding into vagueness and unreality, are thrown into strong relief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs (Classic Reprint) by : Henry James Slack
Download or read book The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs (Classic Reprint) written by Henry James Slack and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs Sociology, or Social Science - Its Origin and Objects - Ideas of Law - Growth of Positive Science - Modem Discoveries in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Illustrations of Universal Progress by : Herbert Spencer
Download or read book Illustrations of Universal Progress written by Herbert Spencer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions Although the argument contained in the first essay on Progress its Law and Cause, has been published in an amplified form in the author's First Principles, it has been thought best to prefix it to the present col lection as a key to the full interpretation of the other essays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society (Classic Reprint) by : William Withington
Download or read book The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society (Classic Reprint) written by William Withington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Growth of Thought as Affecting the Progress of Society Life differs from happiness. It is supposable, that the lion, tamed and petted, trained to feed somewhat after man's chosen manner, may be as happy as if at liberty in his native range. But such happiness is not the animal's life; since this implies the kind of happiness proper to the creature's constitution, in dis tinction from that induced by forced habits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
