The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and GrowthMacmillan and Company, limited, 1924 - 377 sivua |
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Abbé Abbé de Saint-Pierre advance ancient antiquity appeared argument Aristotle arts Auguste Comte Bacon believe Bodin Bossuet Cartesian causes Christianity civilisation Comte conception Condorcet criticism degeneration Descartes discoveries doctrine of Progress earth eighteenth century enlightenment epoch equality Essay fact felicity Fontenelle France French future Godwin Greek happiness Hegel Helvétius human nature human race idea of Progress ideal imagination improvement increase indefinite individual influence institutions intellectual interest inventions Kant laws liberty literature living Louis XIV Madame de Staël Malebranche man's mankind ment metaphysical Middle Ages mind Montesquieu moral movement optimism optimistic organisation past perfection period Perrault phenomena philosophy of history physical Plato political principle question reached realised reason recognised reform religion Revolution Roger Bacon Roman Rousseau Saint-Pierre Saint-Simon Saint-Simonian says scientific social society speculations spirit stage tendencies theory of Progress thinkers thought tion Turgot universal Voltaire whole
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Sivu 326 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Sivu 180 - ... a just mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our egoism, must have been the happiest and most stable of epochs.
Sivu 97 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Sivu 222 - The discoveries of ancient and modern navigators, and the domestic history or tradition of the most enlightened nations, represent the human savage naked both in mind and body, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.
Sivu 327 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Sivu 52 - But the real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches.
Sivu 222 - Thus, whatever was the beginning of this world, the end will be glorious and paradisaical, beyond what our imaginations can now conceive. Extravagant as some may suppose these views to be, I think I could show them to be fairly suggested by the true theory of human nature, and to arise from the natural course of human affairs.
Sivu 235 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Sivu 5 - There is also a further implication. The process must be the necessary outcome of the psychical and social nature of man; it must not be at the mercy of any external will; otherwise there would be no guarantee of its continuance and its issue, and the idea of Progress would lapse into the idea of Providence.
Sivu 67 - The Project of a Universal Science which can elevate our Nature to its highest degree of Perfection.