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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