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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... asthe completion ofmytreatise on Human Physiology, inwhich man wasconsidered as anindividual.In thisheis consideredin hissocialrelation. But the readerwill also find,I think, thatitisahistory of the progress of ideas and opinions from a ...
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... asthe progress of one man. There Progress ofnations likethatof individuals.are thoughts and actions appertaining to ... as the individual.Some scarcelypass beyondinfancy, some are destroyed ona sudden,some dieof mere oldage.Inthis ...
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... asthe panorama beneath him isextending. And ifhe could attain to the truly philosophical, thegeneral point of view, disengaging himself front all terrestrial influences and entanglements, rising high enough to seethe whole globeat a ...
... asthe panorama beneath him isextending. And ifhe could attain to the truly philosophical, thegeneral point of view, disengaging himself front all terrestrial influences and entanglements, rising high enough to seethe whole globeat a ...
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... Asthe voluntary vanished from his sight,andthe irresistibleremained, and eachmoment became more and more distinct, well might heinclineto disbelieve hisown experience, and to question whetherthe seat of somuch undying glorycould bethe ...
... Asthe voluntary vanished from his sight,andthe irresistibleremained, and eachmoment became more and more distinct, well might heinclineto disbelieve hisown experience, and to question whetherthe seat of somuch undying glorycould bethe ...
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... asthe animal world. The westerly regionsof Europe, through theinfluence of the southwest wind, the Gulf Stream, and their mountain ranges, aresupplied with abundant rains, and have a favourablemean annual temperature; but as wepass to ...
... asthe animal world. The westerly regionsof Europe, through theinfluence of the southwest wind, the Gulf Stream, and their mountain ranges, aresupplied with abundant rains, and have a favourablemean annual temperature; but as wepass to ...
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