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academic historian accepted action activities actual anthropology arrive assumption Auguste Comte Charles Darwin cited Clark Wissler comparative method Comte's conception concerned continuous culture Darwin David Hume determined E. B. Tylor eighteenth century elements envisaged Essays ethnology evidence evolution existence facts fixity follows geological Greek groups happened historiography history-writing human humanistic Hume Ibid idea of progress importance individual influence interest investigation J. B. Bury knowledge l'histoire laws logic logicians London mankind ment mode of procedure modification movement narrative nation natural nineteenth century observed Paris particular past phenomena philosophy political Polybius present primitive problem processes manifested R. G. Collingwood regard relation represented result scientific study social sciences society sociology species statement study of change study of history synthèse en histoire synthesis T. H. Huxley teleology Theodor Waitz theory things thought tion tory Turgot type of inquiry unity whole York
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Page 30 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 63 - I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but SELECTED EPIGRAPHS 31 to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which History has the power to inflict on wrong.
Page 131 - ... perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality...
Page vii - ... pledge announced on Alumni University Day in February, 1922, of a fund of $100,000 bequeathed to James Thayer McMillan and Alexis Caswell Angell, as Trustees, by Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson McMillan, of Detroit, to be devoted by them to the establishment of a memorial in honor of her husband. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, December 28, 1872, prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated from Yale in the Class of 1894.
Page 133 - Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of great length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
Page 13 - Thought shall be the harder, heart the keener, Mood shall be the more as our might lessens.
Page 8 - Most of the great historians whom our age has produced will, centuries hence, probably be more interesting as exhibiting special methods of research, special views on political, social, and literary progress, than as faithful and reliable chroniclers of events; and the objectivity on which some of them pride themselves will be looked upon not as freedom from but as unconsciousness on their part of the preconceived notions which have governed them.
Page 83 - IN AN INQUIRY concerning the improvement of society, the mode of conducting the subject which naturally presents itself, is — 1. To investigate the causes that have hitherto impeded the progress of mankind towards happiness; and, 2. To examine the probability of the total or partial removal of these causes in future.
Page 206 - Thirdly, looking over the field of history there seems to be a law of interdependence — interdependence of individuals, of classes, of tribes, of nations. The human race seems to be essentially an organism, a unit.
Page 16 - ... sums up the life of a period. The story and the deeds of those who pass across its wide canvas are linked with the larger movement of which the men themselves are but a part. The particular action rests upon forces outside itself. The hero is swept into the tide of events. The hairbreadth escapes...