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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... present events, the more plainly are theyseen to be the consequences of physical conditions, andtherefore the results of law.To allude tooneexample out ofmanythat might be considered, the winds, how proverbially inconstant, who can tell ...
... present events, the more plainly are theyseen to be the consequences of physical conditions, andtherefore the results of law.To allude tooneexample out ofmanythat might be considered, the winds, how proverbially inconstant, who can tell ...
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... present economyofourglobe, natural agents arereliedupon as the meansof regulation and of government. Through heat,the distribution and arrangement of the vegetable tribes are accomplished; through their mutual relations with the ...
... present economyofourglobe, natural agents arereliedupon as the meansof regulation and of government. Through heat,the distribution and arrangement of the vegetable tribes are accomplished; through their mutual relations with the ...
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... present invariability oftheworld of organization isthe direct consequence of the physical equilibrium, and so it will continue aslongasthe mean temperature, the annual supply of light, thecomposition of the air,the distribution of water ...
... present invariability oftheworld of organization isthe direct consequence of the physical equilibrium, and so it will continue aslongasthe mean temperature, the annual supply of light, thecomposition of the air,the distribution of water ...
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... present state of humanity on various partsof the surfaceof our planet,its necessary postulate, the complete controlof physical agents, whether natural, or arising artificially from the arts of civilization and the secular progress of ...
... present state of humanity on various partsof the surfaceof our planet,its necessary postulate, the complete controlof physical agents, whether natural, or arising artificially from the arts of civilization and the secular progress of ...
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... present state, it is altogether transient. All systems of civil life are therefore necessarily ephemeral. Time brings new external conditions; the manner of thought is modified; with thought, action. Institutions of all kinds must ...
... present state, it is altogether transient. All systems of civil life are therefore necessarily ephemeral. Time brings new external conditions; the manner of thought is modified; with thought, action. Institutions of all kinds must ...
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