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The Idea of Progress

by J. B. Bury

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Chapter I — Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and le…
  5. 5Chapter II — Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon
  6. 6Chapter III — Cartesianism
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and Moderns
  8. 8Chapter V — The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle
  9. 9Chapter VI — The General Progress of Man: Abbe de Saint-Pierre
  10. 10Chapter VII — New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Tu…
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Encyclopaedists and Economists
  12. 12Chapter IX — Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux. 1
  13. 13Chapter X — The Year 2440
  14. 14Chapter XI — The French Revolution: Condorcet
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Theory of Progress in England
  16. 16Chapter XIII — German Speculations on Progress
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution
  18. 18Chapter XV — The Search for a Law of Progress
  19. 19Chapter XVI — The Search for a Law of Progress: II. Comte
  20. 20Chapter XVII — “Progress” in the French Revolutionary Movement (183…
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Progress in the Light of Evolution
  23. 23Epilogue

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