History of the Intellectual Development of Europe (Complete)Library of Alexandria, 1875 M01 1 - 631 páginas "At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Oxford in 1860, I read an abstract of the physiological argument contained in this work respecting the mental progress of Europe, reserving the historical evidence for subsequent publication. This volume contains that evidence. It is intended as the completion of my work on Human Physiology, in which man was treated of as an individual. In this he is considered in his social relation. But the reader will also find, I think, that it is a history of the progress of ideas and opinions from a point of view heretofore almost entirely neglected. There are two methods of dealing with philosophical questions--the literary and the scientific. Many things which in a purely literary treatment of the subject remain in the background, spontaneously assume a more striking position when their scientific relations are considered. It is the latter method that I have used. Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth. The life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation. These propositions it is the special object of this book to demonstrate. No one, I believe, has hitherto undertaken the labor of arranging the evidence offered by the intellectual history of Europe in accordance with physiological principles, so as to illustrate the orderly progress of civilization, or collected the facts furnished by other branches of science with a view of enabling us to recognize clearly the conditions under which that progress takes place. This philosophical deficiency I have endeavored in the following pages to supply. Seen thus through the medium of physiology, history presents a new aspect to us. We gain a more just and thorough appreciation of the thoughts and motives of men in successive ages of the world"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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... advance of light andlifeis followed by anorderly retreat, and in its turn thesouthern hemisphere presents the same glorious phenomenon. Once every year thelife oftheearth pulsates; nowthereis an aboundingvitality, now a desolation. But ...
... advance of light andlifeis followed by anorderly retreat, and in its turn thesouthern hemisphere presents the same glorious phenomenon. Once every year thelife oftheearth pulsates; nowthereis an aboundingvitality, now a desolation. But ...
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... advance. Interstitial change anddeaththe condition ofindividual life. In an individual, lifeis maintained onlyby the production and destructionof organicparticles,no portion of the systembeing ina state ofimmobility, buteach displaying ...
... advance. Interstitial change anddeaththe condition ofindividual life. In an individual, lifeis maintained onlyby the production and destructionof organicparticles,no portion of the systembeing ina state ofimmobility, buteach displaying ...
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... advance, thoughitmay sometimes be unexpected, can never be abrupt. At each stage events andideas emerge which notonlynecessarily owetheir origin topreceding events Variable rapidity ofnational life. and ideas,but extend far into the ...
... advance, thoughitmay sometimes be unexpected, can never be abrupt. At each stage events andideas emerge which notonlynecessarily owetheir origin topreceding events Variable rapidity ofnational life. and ideas,but extend far into the ...
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... advance had been madetoinvent the decimal system, perhapsfrom counting upon the fingers, yet that it was veryfar from perfection. Tothe inhabitantsofCentral Asia the seawas altogether unknown; hencethebranches of the emigrating column ...
... advance had been madetoinvent the decimal system, perhapsfrom counting upon the fingers, yet that it was veryfar from perfection. Tothe inhabitantsofCentral Asia the seawas altogether unknown; hencethebranches of the emigrating column ...
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... advance of Greek theological ideas. Butit must not be supposed that all Greek mythology can be thus explained. Itis enough for us to examine the circumstances under which, for many ages,the European communitieshadbeen placed ...
... advance of Greek theological ideas. Butit must not be supposed that all Greek mythology can be thus explained. Itis enough for us to examine the circumstances under which, for many ages,the European communitieshadbeen placed ...
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