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It is remarkable that it has not occurred to any writer till 1910 to trace the history of
the idea of progress . No doubt there is a discussion in Comte ' s • Cours de
philosophie positive , ' but , like so many of Comte ' s ideas , it is only thrown out
in ...
It is remarkable that it has not occurred to any writer till 1910 to trace the history of
the idea of progress . No doubt there is a discussion in Comte ' s • Cours de
philosophie positive , ' but , like so many of Comte ' s ideas , it is only thrown out
in ...
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The foundation of the Royal Society was one day to be the outcome of these
ideas . It is scarcely three centuries since the idea of the possibility of indefinite
progress through man ' s own conscious efforts first emerged in the minds of a
few ...
The foundation of the Royal Society was one day to be the outcome of these
ideas . It is scarcely three centuries since the idea of the possibility of indefinite
progress through man ' s own conscious efforts first emerged in the minds of a
few ...
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revolution of the centuries , when a new idea will usurp its place as the directing
idea of humanity . Another star , unnoticed now or invisible , will climb up the
intellectual heaven , and human emotions will react to its influence , human plans
...
revolution of the centuries , when a new idea will usurp its place as the directing
idea of humanity . Another star , unnoticed now or invisible , will climb up the
intellectual heaven , and human emotions will react to its influence , human plans
...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 234. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1920 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 okt. 2005 |
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