 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...of New York. 2 vols. demy 8vo., I/. Is. Author's Preface. — " Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth....Conquest, from the Mythical Period to the Invasion under Strougbow. By MC Ferguson. Fcap. 8vo. 5s. Lives of the Seven Bishops who were Committed to the Tower... | |
 | John William Draper - 1863 - 680 pages
...relations are considered. It is the latter method that I have used. Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth....is the special object of this book to demonstrate. No one, I believe, has hitherto undertaken the labor of arranging the evidence offered by the intellectual... | |
 | 1863 - 858 pages
...Or, to state the subject and scope in the author's own words, "Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth....individual is a miniature of the life of a nation." The teaching of the book is fatalistic and materialistic throughout. The book seems to us to possess... | |
 | American literature - 1863 - 882 pages
...Draper undertakes to demonstrate is, " that social advancement is as completely under the control of law as is bodily growth ; the life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation :" or, as afterward expanded, "In a world composed of vanishing forms I am to vindicate the imperishability,... | |
 | 1863 - 682 pages
...advancement ia as completely under the control of natural laws as is bodily growth ;" and secondly, that "the life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation. " It is presented by its author as the completion of a work previously published by him on Human Physiology,... | |
 | 1865 - 688 pages
...of humanity, are altogether physiological phenomena." Page 2. " Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law, as is bodily growth....is the special object of this book to demonstrate." " No one, I believe, has hitherto undertaken the labor of arranging the evidence offered by the intellectual... | |
 | John William Draper - Civilization - 1865 - 352 pages
...Draper undertakes to demonstrate is, " that social advancement is as completely under the control of law as is bodily growth: the life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation." To demonstrate the majesty of LAW in the history of nations, the author brings an accumulation of learning... | |
 | John William Draper - Electronic books - 1865 - 684 pages
...Draper undertakes to demonstrate is, " that social advancement is as completely under the control of law as is bodily growth : the life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation." To demonstrate the majesty of I AW in the history of nations, the author bringa an accumulation of... | |
 | Heinrich Goullon - Mental illness - 1867 - 304 pages
...$ra£)ett beâ ein^elnen Sííenfctien unb beê^alb bie toab,re grei^ett ganzer -Kationen. Фепп „the life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation. Man is the archetype of society. Individual progress is the model of social progress" *). 2Bir 6,aben... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 464 pages
...question whether all existing things in society can be traced * " Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth....individual is a miniature of the life of a nation."— Dr. Draper, History of the Intellectual Development of Europe. Preface. to this law of development... | |
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Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is bodily growth. The life of an individual is a miniature of the life of a nation. 
