 Europe, the population of the towns is everywhere outstripping that of the country; and it is evident that the more men congregate in great cities, the more they will become accustomed to draw their materials of thought from the business of human life,...  History of Civilization in England - Strana 112autor/autoři: Henry Thomas Buckle - 1877Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1866 - 694 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...the people, since, in the most civilized parts of Europe, the population of the towns is everywhere outstripping that of the country ; and it is evident...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 str.
...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 - 922 str.
...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 - 940 str.
...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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