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    The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth
    The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth
    The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth
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    The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth

    By J. B. Bury

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    "We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation."
    Contents:
    Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy
    Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon
    Cartesianism
    The Doctrine of Degeneration: the Ancients and Moderns
    The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle
    The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre
    New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot
    The Encyclopaedists and Economists
    Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux
    The Year 2440
    The French Revolution: Condorcet
    The Theory of Progress in England
    German Speculations on Progress
    Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution
    The Search for a Law of Progress:
    "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)
    Material Progress: the Exhibition of 1851
    Progress in the Light of Evolution

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishere-artnow
    Release dateFeb 6, 2019
    ISBN9788027303205
    The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth
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    J. B. Bury

    John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) was an eminent British classical scholar and historian who wrote extensively on Greek, Roman and Byzantine history and was instrumental in the revival of Byzantine studies. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was later made a fellow, he also gained a chair in Modern History at Trinity in 1893 and in 1898 was appointed Regius Professor of Greek. In 1902 he became Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, where he became a mentor to Sir Steven Runciman. Bury is famous for his major histories of the Roman Empire as well as his classic work The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians and his work on a new edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He also edited the Cambridge Ancient History and planned much of the Cambridge Medieval History.

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