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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... altogether determined by the voluntary action of men, some that the Providence of God directs usinevery step,some thatall events are fixed by Destiny. Itis for usto ascertain how far each of these affirmations is true. Individual life ...
... altogether determined by the voluntary action of men, some that the Providence of God directs usinevery step,some thatall events are fixed by Destiny. Itis for usto ascertain how far each of these affirmations is true. Individual life ...
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... altogether deny that impressions can be made on species, and see in the long succession of extinct forms, the ancient existenceof which they must acknowledge, the evidences of a continuous and Orderly sequence of conditions is followed ...
... altogether deny that impressions can be made on species, and see in the long succession of extinct forms, the ancient existenceof which they must acknowledge, the evidences of a continuous and Orderly sequence of conditions is followed ...
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... altogether hopelessto disentangle thelaw which is guiding them all, and demonstrate itclearly.Of such groups,each may exhibit, at the samemoment, anadvance toadifferent stage,just as we see in the same family theyoung,the middleaged,the ...
... altogether hopelessto disentangle thelaw which is guiding them all, and demonstrate itclearly.Of such groups,each may exhibit, at the samemoment, anadvance toadifferent stage,just as we see in the same family theyoung,the middleaged,the ...
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... altogether different, itwould appear spontaneously inallits parts to commence amovement to comeintoharmony with the new conditions—a movement of asecularnature, and implying theconsumption of many generations for its accomplishment ...
... altogether different, itwould appear spontaneously inallits parts to commence amovement to comeintoharmony with the new conditions—a movement of asecularnature, and implying theconsumption of many generations for its accomplishment ...
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... altogether on the point ofviewweoccupy. He whois immersed in the turmoil of a crowded city sees nothing but the acts of men, and, if he formed his opinion from his experience alone, must conclude that thecourse of events altogether ...
... altogether on the point ofviewweoccupy. He whois immersed in the turmoil of a crowded city sees nothing but the acts of men, and, if he formed his opinion from his experience alone, must conclude that thecourse of events altogether ...
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