History of Civilization in England, Volume 1

Henry Thomas Buckle

D. Appleton, 1880 - 377 páginas

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CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND	1

This absurd way of writing history was the natural result of	8

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Chillingworth compared with Hooker and Jewel	45

Nor was any thing done in botany	51

Operation of these agents on the accumulation of wealth	52

Same tendency exhibited in Helvétius	100

Further illustration from Central America	107

Subserviency of Pitt	320

Importance of the Revolution	324

319	336

He supported the new secular scheme of government against the	350

Gloomy political prospects of England late in the eighteenth century 351355	351

Therefore history is the modification of man by nature and of nature	352

The nobles displace the clergy and celibacy is opposed by the prin	360

CHAPTER VIII	363

Examination of the two metaphysical methods of generalizing men	118

MENTAL LAWS ARE EITHER MORAL OR INTELLECTUAL	121

507511	124

There is no evidence that the natural faculties of man improve	127

Illustrations of this from Rome and Spain	133

The invention of gunpowder	161

Comparison of the history of England with that of France 169171	169

Subsequent movement in the same direction and increasing indiffer	173

Necessity of ascertaining the fundamental laws of intellectual pro	176

Great advantage of this	180

Influence of religion on the progress of society 184191	184

And from Sweden and Scotland 191193	191

Influence of government on the progress of society	197

They have also increased hypocrisy and perjury 204205	204

The earliest histories are ballads 212215	212

A change of religion in any country also tends to corrupt its early	218

Illustration of this from the history of Charlemagne by Turpin 231232	231

Narrow range of knowledge possessed by historians	233

And in the predictions of Stoffler respecting the Deluge	239

Failure of these methods	243

Object of the present work	244

Hence too toleration was impossible in France	258

Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes	259

Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign	261

The first sceptic was not Rabelais but Montaigne	267

Legislative improvements in the reign of Charles II in spite of politi	269

Human actions if not the result of fixed laws must be due to chance	271

These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit	280

This alliance was dissolved by the Declaration of Indulgence	286

The most remarkable steps in favour of toleration were however	298

Ignorance of George III	300

In England during the same period there was a dearth of great	306

But in France immense impetus was given to zoology by Cuvier	364

Statistics prove the regularity of actions in regard to murder and other	368

Bichats views respecting the tissues	371

Centralization was in France the natural successor of feudality	374

Evidence of the illiberality of the French Protestants	376

444	420

Hence a schism in the church	430

And by Mazarin	431

CHAPTER IX	440

Power of the French nobles	454

Another illustration from the vanity of the French and pride of	460

In the reign of Elizabeth both classes were weakened	468

Coinciding with this the feudal system and an hereditary aristocracy	469

Vanity and imbecility of the French nobles	479

CHAPTER XI	490

CHAPTER XII	517

Admiration of England expressed by Frenchmen	529

The historian must ascertain whether mind or nature has most influ	532

In France literature was the last resource of liberty	541

CHAPTER XIII	553

Still further progress early in the seventeenth century 557560	557

Historical literature in France before the end of the sixteenth	566

Immense improvements introduced by Voltaire	575

His views adopted by Mallet Mably Velly Villaret Duclos	582

He weakened the authority of mere scholars and theologians	588

The discourses of Turgot and their influence	596

The intellect of France began to attack the state about 1750 602603	602

Abolition of the Jesuits	608

Jansenism being allied to Calvinism its revival in France aided	614

Physical science is essentially democratic	657

Influence of the American Rebellion	669

ALPHABETICAL INDEX	673

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Título	History of Civilization in England, Volume 1 History of Civilization in England, Henry Thomas Buckle
Autor	Henry Thomas Buckle
Edição	2
Editora	D. Appleton, 1880
Original de	Universidade do Iowa
Digitalizado	29 Out 2015
Número de páginas	377 páginas

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