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id: 21992
title: Christianity and Progress
author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson
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  The idea of progress was abroad in the world long before men became was erected into a progressive idea of human life as a whole. idea had firmly grasped the human mind, the modern age had come indeed, our need of God and immortality and the saving powers which Christians and his idea of God, marching through the world "like fifes and drums," As men''s thought of God has thus been molded by the idea of progress on At the heart of the idea of progress is man''s new scientific Men want to know what life spiritually means and they want living God. Such, then, is the abiding need of religion in a scientific age. individual ways of coming into the Christian life influence us deeply We cannot keep any spiritual thing in human life, even the spirit of the idea of God in Hebrew-Christian thought moved out from a very


id: 27948
title: Progress and History
author: nan
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  world man''s use of the word has carried more meaning and, though As to progress, the largest general ideal which can affect man''s action, consider man along with the other forms of life as subject to mere showing, it looks as if the progressive nature of man were beyond new world of science and art, established an ideal of the sane mind in Odyssey of the human spirit, the common mind of Man coming at last the Christian faith that we know God only under the terms of human life history of man''s common life in the world will, I think, show two great the progress of man''s power over Nature. life of society can develop along the lines of man''s spiritual nature: in our study of progress in industry, is the history of man as a high and so far the mind of man had progressed in knowledge and in


id: 30610
title: History of Human Society
author: Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
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  Those tribes or nations having a well-developed social order, with Empire developed great powers in government, education, in the arts and The great development of art, literature, philosophy, and politics divide the early culture of man, based upon his development in art into Ages to learn that the power and influence of religion is great in ages of time represented by the geological periods the life of man man the tribes had been fully developed over a great part of the that certain tribes had developed a state of civilization as high as a hypothesis that man started as an individual and developed social life beneficent sea, national life expanded, government and law developed They finally developed in Persia a great national life. arts of civilization and developed a powerful organization, and then independent social life was of great importance in the development of As the other forms and functions of state life developed, feudalism


id: 15084
title: Recent Developments in European Thought
author: nan
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  establishing in the city-state a new form of political organization for Between forty and fifty years ago a great European man of science, Emil facts no man is likely to achieve much in the search for principles, for fruitful work we need the union in one person of the ''man of science'' The general state of things at the time of which I am speaking was thus time the belief universally held by students of the science of religion the course of nature and of human life is controlled by personal beings man whom he imagines to control the course of nature and of human life. It was natural in such a time to assume that any living art of poetry So the form of every work of art is conditioned by the fact that In fact, art in its nature is a social activity, because man in his


id: 4557
title: The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
author: Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)
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  CHAPTER VI THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF MAN: ABBE DE SAINT-PIERRE history, we are generally thinking of those ideas which express human The idea of human Progress then is a theory which involves a [Footnote: The history of the idea of Progress has been treated His general view of the course of human history was not materially work announces a new view of history which is optimistic regarding man''s of man, but of a progress in human knowledge. progress of the human mind in regard to natural science, and in regard idea of the general Progress of man. in physical science is part of the progress of the "universal human took the nature of human reason would have ensured a progress in in history is conditioned by the nature and development of ideas." his advanced age he accepts the idea of Progress, so far as it could be progression and, like nature, subject to general laws.


id: 34771
title: The Scientific Basis of National Progress, Including that of Morality
author: Gore, George
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  great public importance of _new_ scientific knowledge, and to the means of discovery; also that new truths are evolved by original research made in such great pecuniary benefits from original scientific research, there is bequests in this country, and the great effect original scientific research in applying scientific knowledge to practical uses by means of inventions, largely due to the discovery and extension of new scientific knowledge. That mental action is subject to the great principles and laws of science. discovery of new scientific knowledge, and the use of inventions based upon prove that new scientific knowledge is really a basis of mental progress, prove that mental actions are largely subject to scientific principles;--it Another great moral effect of the continual discovery of new truth in scientific men in making discoveries, and when any person arrives at a new knowledge of the nature and importance of scientific research, and of the


