The Idea of Progress
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. SOME INTERPRETATIONS OF UNIVERSAL
HISTORY: BODIN AND LE ROY
CHAPTER II. UTILITY THE END OF KNOWLEDGE: BACON
CHAPTER III. CARTESIANISM
CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTRINE OF DEGENERATION: THE
ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE: FONTENELLE
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
CHAPTER IX. WAS CIVILISATION A MISTAKE? ROUSSEAU,
CHASTELLUX
CHAPTER X. THE YEAR 2440
CHAPTER XI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: CONDORCET
CHAPTER XII. THE THEORY OF PROGRESS IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER XIII. GERMAN SPECULATIONS ON PROGRESS
CHAPTER XIV. CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN FRANCE AFTER
THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XV. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS:
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS:
II. COMTE
CHAPTER XVII. "PROGRESS" IN THE FRENCH
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (1830-1851)
CHAPTER XVIII. MATERIAL PROGRESS: THE EXHIBITION
OF 1851
CHAPTER XIX. PROGRESS IN THE LIGHT OF EVOLUTION
EPILOGUE
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