The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
by J. B. Bury
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About This Book
John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) was an Irish historian, classical scholar and philologist. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin from 1893-1902 before being Regis Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University from 1902 until his death. Bury's writings, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. His two works on the philosophy of history, A History of Freedom of Thought (1913) and The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Origin and Growth (1920), elucidated the Victorian ide...
Chapters (40)
- THE IDEA OF PROGRESS
- AN INQUIRY INTO ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH
- Regius Professor Of Modern History, And Fellow Of King's College, In The University Of Cambridge
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I. SOME INTERPRETATIONS OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY: BODIN AND LE ROY
- 1.
- CHAPTER II. UTILITY THE END OF KNOWLEDGE: BACON
- 1.
- CHAPTER III. CARTESIANISM
- CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTRINE OF DEGENERATION: THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
- 1.
- CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE: FONTENELLE
- 1.
- CHAPTER VI. THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF MAN: ABBE DE SAINT-PIERRE
- CHAPTER VII. NEW CONCEPTIONS OF HISTORY: MONTESQUIEU, VOLTAIRE, TURGOT
- CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS AND ECONOMISTS
- 1.
- CHAPTER IX. WAS CIVILISATION A MISTAKE? ROUSSEAU, CHASTELLUX. 1.
- CHAPTER X. THE YEAR 2440
- 1.
- CHAPTER XI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: CONDORCET
- I.
- CHAPTER XII. THE THEORY OF PROGRESS IN ENGLAND
- 1.
- CHAPTER XIII. GERMAN SPECULATIONS ON PROGRESS
- 1.
- CHAPTER XIV. CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN FRANCE AFTER THE REVOLUTION
- 1.
- CHAPTER XV. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS:
- I. SAINT-SIMON
- CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS: II. COMTE
- 1.
- CHAPTER XVII. "PROGRESS" IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (1830-1851)
- 1.
- CHAPTER XVIII. MATERIAL PROGRESS: THE EXHIBITION OF 1851
- 1.
- CHAPTER XIX. PROGRESS IN THE LIGHT OF EVOLUTION
- 1.
- EPILOGUE
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