Introduction to the History of Civilization in England

Henry Thomas Buckle

1904

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Summary of what was accomplished for Spain by the government between	xxxvi

STATEMENT OF THE RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING HISTORY AND PROOFS OF	1

Illustrations from the history of French	17

The best legislation abrogates former legislation	27

Hence a schism in the church	34

883	40

This proposition illustrated by a comparison between Hindustan and Greece 7583	75

Chemical and physiological note on the connexion between food and animal heat	85

CHAPTER II	437

These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit	445

His Age of Louis XIV	448

His Morals Manners and Character of Nations	457

He weakened the authority of mere scholars and theologians	463

All this hastened the advance of the French Revolution	470

Jansenism being allied to Calvinism its revival in France aided the democratic	481

EXAMINATION	484

Failure of these methods	92

The progress of society is twofold moral and intellectual	99

Convocation first despised and then abolished	101

The diminution of religious persecution is owing to the progress of knowledge 108109	108

And from every branch of literature	109

The interference of politicians with trade has injured trade	112

The three principal ways in which the progress of knowledge has lessened	116

The clergy lost all offices out of the church and their numbers diminished	123

CHAPTER V	130

They have also increased hypocrisy and perjury	159

The church rallied for a moment under Anne	165

A change of religion in any country also tends to corrupt its early history 170173	170

Rapid succession of sceptical controversies	172

This being as yet little understood historians have not collected proper materials	175

Political meetings and publication of parliamentary debates	181

But credulity was still prevalent as is seen in Comines	186

Corresponding change in the style of authors	188

Object of the present work	191

Under James I and Charles I this opposition to authority assumes a political	194

Inasmuch however as these ameliorations were opposed to the habits of	195

For the reasons already stated their efforts were fruitless notwithstanding	203

Under Charles II it takes a frivolous form at court	205

Impetus now given to physical science and attempts of the clergy to oppose	229

The municipal element being thus imperfect the only ally which the Crown	231

Ignorance of George III	236

Comparison of the history of England with that of France	240

The clergy were the only body who could withstand the nobles Causes of	246

This liberal policy on the part of the government was only part of a much larger	247

With that of Germany	250

Also respecting the number of marriages annually	252

Subserviency of Pitt	253

Analogy between Descartes and Richelieu	272

Such failures are the more observable because Spain enjoys immense natural	275

But notwithstanding all this there was a great difference between France	279

With that of the United States of America	294

620	335

CHAPTER IX	346

Influence of religion on the progress of society	347

Effects of this difference between the two countries in the fourteenth century 353355	353

Influence of government on the progress of society	359

Both were opposed by the clergy and nobles Natural alliance between these	367

CHAPTER XIX	370

And respecting the number of letters sent undirected	375

This policy reacted upon England	376

382386	382

887	389

0	390

The truth however was that the theological spirit had taken such hold of	392

But his system of protecting literature is injurious	394

Universal decline of France during the latter part of the reign of Louis xiv 408409	408

18	412

Nor was anything done in botany	414

Reasons why literary men at first attacked the church and not the government 429432	429

Abolition of the Jesuits	486

And in Condillac	493

In England during the same period there was a dearth of great thinkers	502

This alliance was dissolved by the Declaration of Indulgence	516

All these vast results were part of the causes of the French Revolution 517518	517

Influence of the American Rebellion	525

The clergy then united with the dissenters and brought about the Revolution	532

22	536

Philip II notwithstanding his repulsive qualities was loved by the nation 540547	540

Their affection for him was the result of general causes which during several	547

But this sort of progress depending too much upon individuals is necessarily	553

The power of the nobles was still further favoured by the physical structure	581

2329	591

6970	600

PAGE	629

They were too feeble and insignificant to elect their own magistrates	639

In Spain the ruling classes were supreme the people counted for nothing	642

7274	654

Still and notwithstanding these successive failures James IV followed the same	661

As the nobles took the opposite side and as the people had no influence the suc	667

He returned to Scotland in 1559 by which time the struggle was nearly over	674

Thereupon the Protestant preachers said that the nobles were instigated by	680

Violent language used by the clergy against the king and against the nobles 689692	689

CHAPTER XVIII	696

the reaction declared itself and in 1638 the bishops were overthrown	706

But the nobles upheld that institution because they loved inequality for	710

Importance of the Revolution	724

enormous	732

This great democratic and liberating movement was aided by the growth of	737

AN EXAMINATION OF THE SCOTCH INTELLECT DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	741

This also reacted upon England	747

Hence in the seventeenth century secular interests were neglected and theo	748

The clergy becoming elated indulge in language of extraordinary arrogance 757762	757

The clergy to intimidate the people and bring them completely under control	764

The result was that all mirth all innocent gaiety all demonstrations of happi	785

CHAPTER VIII	792

Hence the secular philosophy of the eighteenth century though new in	797

Comparison between the method of this work and the meth d employed	830

But at the end of the sixteenth century scepticism appeared in France and with	836

In physical philosophy the deductive method was equally prevalent in Scotland	837

He derived great aid from poetry	850

The action of fire and water on the crust of the earth may be studied deductively	855

Assuming however for the purposes of classification that the organic world	863

228	871

His nosology	872

Hunters inquiries concerning the movements of animals and vegetables 879880	879

In pathology his love of deduction was more obvious than in physiology	885

Theology forms the only exception to this rule	893

He supported the new secular scheme of government against the old ecclesiastical	902

788	905

In 1700 when affairs were at their worst the Austrian dynasty was succeeded	910

The first and most essential quality of an historian is a clear perception of

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Introduction to the History of Civilization in England, כרך 1
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עמוד 557 - This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...‏

מופיע ב-1027 ספרים מ-1740 עד 2008

עמוד 138 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.‏

מופיע ב-285 ספרים מ-1756 עד 2008

עמוד 523 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.‏

מופיע ב-615 ספרים מ-1825 עד 2008

עמוד 258 - ... that if he were to put all the political information which he had learned from books, all which he had gained from science, and all which any knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he had derived from his right honourable friend's instruction and conversation were placed in the other, he should be at a loss to decide to which to give the preference.‏

מופיע ב-86 ספרים מ-1758 עד 2006

עמוד 265 - The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth!‏

מופיע ב-311 ספרים מ-1780 עד 2008

עמוד 193 - ... it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not nor care not whither this were brutish. Again, that authority of men should prevail with men either against or above reason, is no part of our belief. Companies of learned men, be they never so great and reverend, are to yield unto reason...‏

מופיע ב-71 ספרים מ-1793 עד 2007

עמוד 103 - To do good to others ; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes; to love your neighbour as yourself; to forgive your enemies ; to restrain your passions ; to honour your parents; to respect those who are set over you : these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years, and not one jot or tittle has been added to them by all the sermons, homilies, and text-books which moralists and theologians have been able to produce.‏

מופיע ב-87 ספרים מ-1817 עד 2006

עמוד 260 - In effect, to follow not to force the public inclination, to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.‏

מופיע ב-125 ספרים מ-1791 עד 2008

עמוד 263 - I do not examine whether the giving away a man's money be a power excepted and reserved out of the general trust of government...‏

מופיע ב-154 ספרים מ-1756 עד 2008

עמוד 263 - America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself. I am not here going into the distinctions of rights, nor attempting to mark their boundaries. I do not enter into these metaphysical distinctions. I hate the very sound of them.‏

מופיע ב-220 ספרים מ-1756 עד 2008

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