 From these facts it may be fairly inferred, that the advance of European civilization is characterized by a diminishing influence of physical laws, and an increasing influence of mental laws. The complete proof of this generalization can be collected...  History of Civilization in England - עמוד 112מאת Henry Thomas Buckle - 1883תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1866 - 694 דפים
...shall be under-estimated, in order that science may be successfully taught. Mr. Buckle insists that " European civilization is characterized by a diminishing...laws, and an increasing influence of mental laws." Perhaps he meant to say, that, by the strengthening of the one, the other becomes weaker by comparison.... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 588 דפים
...promoting at once man's goodness, power, and happiness." — Primitive Culture, vol. ic ii. p. 24. "The advance of European civilization is characterized...laws, and an increasing influence of mental laws." — Buckle. History of Civilization, vol. ic iii. 3 Mr. Buckle lays it down that " a double movement,... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1895 - 598 דפים
...European civilisation in general. As thus — "The advance of European civilisation is characterised by a diminishing influence of physical laws, and an increasing influence of mental laws. ... It becomes clear that of the two classes of laws which regulate the progress of mankind, the men1al... | |
 | 1912 - 620 דפים
...absorption or of assimilation ; Buckle and his theory that the advance of European civilization was characterized by a diminishing influence of physical laws and an increasing influence of mental laws, and that the measure of civilization is the triumph of mind over external agents; Ratzel, Novicow,... | |
 | Old Colony Historical Society - 1899 - 702 דפים
...his theory was a complete explanation of all the phenomena of human life. Buckle, indeed, declared that "the advance of European civilization is characterized...laws and an increasing influence of mental laws", and "the measure of civilization is the triumph of mind over external agents." Marx admitted that his... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1903 - 432 דפים
...From these facts it may be fairly inferred, that the advance of European civilisation is characterised by a diminishing influence of physical laws, and an increasing influence of mental laws." How far his general course harmonises with these statements is another question. 37. Nature directly... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1904 - 976 דפים
...to draw their materials of thought from the business of human life, and the less attention they will pay to those peculiarities of nature which are the...it is founded, for the future volumes of this work. « For a curious list of famines, see an essay by Mr. Farr, in Journal of the Statistical Society,... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1924 - 184 דפים
...which possess an equal, and sometimes a superior, influence.2 In fact, in a later chapter he maintains that "the advance of European civilization is characterized...laws and an increasing influence of mental laws"; and he concludes that if, as he has shown, " the measure of civilization is the triumph of the mind... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1913 - 940 דפים
...much as matter, and, with almost Hegelian vision, indicates its ultimate control. He distinctly states that "the advance of European civilization is characterized...physical laws and an increasing influence of mental laws ", and that " the measure of civilization is the triumph of mind over matter". If Buckle had presented... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1913 - 922 דפים
...much as matter, and, with almost Hegelian vision, indicates its ultimate control. He distinctly states that " the advance of European civilization is characterized...physical laws and an increasing influence of mental laws ", and that " the measure of civilization is the triumph of mind over matter". If Buckle had presented... | |
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