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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

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Number of Chapters: 23

Length: 08 hours and 59 minutes

Language: English

John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of the concept of political and social progress by looking at writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to consider what the history of the past hundred years would add to such an analysis. - Summary by Barry Ganong

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Preface (Barry Ganong)
Introduction, Part 1 (Barry Ganong)
Introduction, Part 2 (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 1: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 2: Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 3: Cartesianism (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 4: The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 1 (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 2 (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 6: The General Progress of Man: Abbé de Saint-Pierre (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 7: New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 8: The Encyclopaedists and Economists (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 9: Was Civilization a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 10: The Year 2440 (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 11: The French Revolution: Condorcet (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 12: The Theory of Progress in England (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 13: German Speculations on Progress (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 14: Currents of Thought in France after the Revolution (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 15: The Search for a Law of Progress: I. Saint-Simon (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 16: The Search for a Law of Progress: II. Comte (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 17: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851) (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 18: Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851 (Barry Ganong)
Chapter 19: Progress in the Light of Evolution; and Epilogue (Barry Ganong)
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