AN INQUIRY INTO ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH
By J. B. Bury Regius Professor Of Modern History, And Fellow Of
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. SOME INTERPRETATIONS OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY: BODIN AND LE ROY 1
CHAPTER II. UTILITY THE END OF KNOWLEDGE: BACON 1
CHAPTER III. CARTESIANISM
CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTRINE OF DEGENERATION: THE ANCIENTS AND MODERNS 1
CHAPTER V. THE PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE: FONTENELLE 1
CHAPTER VI. THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF MAN: ABBE DE SAINT-PIERRE
CHAPTER VII. NEW CONCEPTIONS OF HISTORY: MONTESQUIEU, VOLTAIRE, TURGOT
CHAPTER VIII. THE ENCYCLOPAEDISTS AND ECONOMISTS 1
CHAPTER IX. WAS CIVILISATION A MISTAKE? ROUSSEAU, CHASTELLUX. 1.
CHAPTER X. THE YEAR 2440 1
CHAPTER XI. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: CONDORCET I.
CHAPTER XII. THE THEORY OF PROGRESS IN ENGLAND 1
CHAPTER XIII. GERMAN SPECULATIONS ON PROGRESS 1
CHAPTER XIV. CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN FRANCE AFTER THE REVOLUTION 1
CHAPTER XV. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS: I. SAINT-SIMON
CHAPTER XVI. THE SEARCH FOR A LAW OF PROGRESS: II. COMTE 1
CHAPTER XVII. "PROGRESS" IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (1830-1851) 1
CHAPTER XVIII. MATERIAL PROGRESS: THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 1
CHAPTER XIX. PROGRESS IN THE LIGHT OF EVOLUTION 1
EPILOGUE
