 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.  Elements of Algebra - Page 8by Charles Elsee - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Elwes - 1872 - 306 pages
...Professor of Chemistry and Physiology in the University of New York. 2 vols. demy 8vo., I/. Is. Author's Preface. — " Social advancement is as completely...is the special object of this book to demonstrate." The Story of the Irish before the Conquest, from the Mythical Period to the Invasion under Strougbow.... | |
 | John William Draper - Europe - 1863 - 656 pages
...position when their scientific relations are considered. It is the latter method that I have used. Social advancement is as completely under the control...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
...disturbances of the national life of mankind. Or, to state the subject and scope in the author's own words, "Social advancement is as completely under the control...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... | |
 | 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
...XVI. 4 " The equilibrium and movement of humanity, are altogether physiological phenomena." Page 2. " Social advancement is as completely under the control...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 - Physiology - 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... | |
 | John William Draper - Literary Criticism - 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 686 pages
...endeavored to show " that the historical progress of the nations of that continent illustrates the fact that social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is the bodtly growth of an individual." The present work is founded on four lectures delivered before... | |
 | Education - 1866 - 400 pages
...prominent principles thus presented on certain questions oi great political interest, and i li.it " Social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as i» the bodily growth of an individual." The value of the work may be learned fiom an enumeration of... | |
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