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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... passing events as dependingon the arbitrary volition of a superior but invisible power. He gives to the world a constitution like his own. His tendency is necessarily to superstition. Whatever is strange, or powerful,orvast, impresses ...
... passing events as dependingon the arbitrary volition of a superior but invisible power. He gives to the world a constitution like his own. His tendency is necessarily to superstition. Whatever is strange, or powerful,orvast, impresses ...
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... passed through the same phases as physics. Living beings have been considered asbeyond the power of external influences, and, conspicuously among them,Man has been affirmed tobe independent oftheforces that rule the world in which ...
... passed through the same phases as physics. Living beings have been considered asbeyond the power of external influences, and, conspicuously among them,Man has been affirmed tobe independent oftheforces that rule the world in which ...
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... passed away through theadvent of material conditions incompatible with its continuance. Evennow, a fallof halfadozen degrees in the meantemperature of anylatitudewould occasionthe vanishing oftheforms of warmerclimates, and theadvent of ...
... passed away through theadvent of material conditions incompatible with its continuance. Evennow, a fallof halfadozen degrees in the meantemperature of anylatitudewould occasionthe vanishing oftheforms of warmerclimates, and theadvent of ...
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... passing slowly along a meridional track; but thecase would be quite different if the movement werealong a parallel of latitude. In this latter direction the variations of climate are far less marked, and depend muchmore ongeographical ...
... passing slowly along a meridional track; but thecase would be quite different if the movement werealong a parallel of latitude. In this latter direction the variations of climate are far less marked, and depend muchmore ongeographical ...
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... passed through inits progress of development. Their courseisever advancing, never retrograde. The life of a nationthusflows in a regular sequence,determined by invariable law, andhence, in estimating different nations, we must not be ...
... passed through inits progress of development. Their courseisever advancing, never retrograde. The life of a nationthusflows in a regular sequence,determined by invariable law, andhence, in estimating different nations, we must not be ...
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