Introduction to the History of Civilization in England

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Hence it appears that of the two classes of mental and physical laws the mental
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CHAPTER IV
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Progress therefore depends on an improvement in the circumstances under
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The diminution of religious persecution is owing to the progress of knowledge 108109
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As civilization advances men of intellect avoid becoming soldiers
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The discoveries made by political economists 120125
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Inference to be drawn as to the causes of social progress 128129
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With that of Germany 135137
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Deductive spirit in Scotland 140144
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Influence of religion on the progress of society 145146
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Connexion between these views and subsequent discoveries
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Influence of literature on the progress of society 151154
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Illustrated by repeal of the cornlaws 155156
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From Central America
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By other laws they have hindered the advance of knowledge
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One cause of error in history was the invention of writing 167169
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But the most active cause of all was the influence of the clergy
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Influence of the general aspects of nature upon the imagination and the under
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Illustration of this from the history of Charlemagne by Turpin 180181
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But credulity was still prevalent as is seen in Comines
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Hooker contrasted with Jewel 192195
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Chillingworth compared with Hooker and Jewel 198199
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Under Charles II it takes a frivolous form at court
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Impetus now given to physical science and attempts of the clergy to oppose it
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These improvements were due to the sceptical and inquiring spirit 219220
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The clergy then united with the dissenters and brought about the Revolution
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Hostility between them and William III 230231
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The clergy lost all offices out of the church and their numbers diminished
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Political meetings and publication of parliamentary debates
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Ignorance of George III 252253
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Ability and accomplishments of Burke 258261
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Burkes subsequent hallucinations and violence 264269
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Policy of George III respecting America 270272
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Which were zealously enforced by the executive 278280
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CHAPTER VIII
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In the former case the imagination is more stimulated than the understanding
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encouraged the Protestants 298299
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He supported the new secular scheme of government against the old ecclesiastical
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They are deserted by their temporal leaders and the management of the party
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They raise a civil war which was a struggle of classes rather than of creeds
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Analogy between Descartes and Richelieu
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CHAPTER IX
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Effects of this difference between the two countries in the fourteenth century
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Both were opposed by the clergy and nobles Natural alliance between these
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As such men were the leaders of the Fronde the rebellion naturally failed
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CHAPTER XI
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DEATH OF LOUIS XIV REACTION AGAINST THE PROTECTIVE SPIRIT AND PREPARATIONS
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The imagination is excited by earthquakes and volcanoes
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CHAPTER XV
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Spain was now ruled by foreigners 581585
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Government attempted to remedy this ignorance by calling in foreign aid 593598
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The influence of foreigners in Spain was displayed in the expulsion of
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Summary of what was accomplished for Spain by the government between
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Still the clergy notwithstanding the indecency of their conduct conferred
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In this way general causes always triumph over particular actions 616618
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This it is which isolating Spain from the rest of the civilized world keeps
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Irish invasion of Scotland 632633
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The injuries which these invasions inflicted upon Scotland stopped
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Evidence of the scanty population of the Scotch towns 644646
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Circumstances in the seventeenth century favourable to the influence of
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Also by an unhealthy climate making life precarious
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attacked the nobles and favoured the Church hoping thereby to estab
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As the nobles took the opposite side and as the people had no influence the suc
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He returned to Scotland in 1559 by which time the struggle was nearly over
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Melville became their leader Under his auspices that great struggle
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The clergy availed themselves of these habits to extend and consolidate their
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Tyrannical conduct of the bishops
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Connexion between the rise of the trading spirit and the abolition in 1748
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The nobles being thus weakened were in 1748 easily deprived of their right
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The great engine of power was the KirkSession Tyranny of the KirkSessions
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The clergy becoming elated indulge in language of extraordinary arrogance
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The clergy to intimidate the people and bring them completely under control
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CHAPTER XX
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Summary of the most important distinctions between induction and deduction
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Of these two methods the English followed the inductive the Scotch
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Adam Smiths philosophy 805820
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Humes philosophy
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His Natural History of Religion 826829
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The progress of England on the other hand depends upon the ability of
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Reid attacked Humes method because he disliked the results to which that
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Blacks philosophy 840848
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In Spain the ruling classes were supreme the people counted for nothing
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Black therefore did immense service by giving free scope to the imagination
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From these causes the civilizations exterior to Europe are mainly influenced
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Assuming however for the purposes of classification that the organic world
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His natural disposition was towards deduction
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Hunters inquiries concerning the movements of animals and vegetables 879880
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His pathological speculations respecting the principles of action and the prin
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Notwithstanding this difference the deductive method was supreme in both
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These superstitions are eminently irreligious and are everywhere becoming
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Decline of manufactures and of population and increase of poverty
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.

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