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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumesRobertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

Name: A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
Author: Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

Free thought -- History

1. Progress in cosmology. Laplace and modern astronomy.
           Orthodox resistance. Leslie                               457
        2. Physiology in France. Cabanis                             459
        3. Physiology in England. Lawrence. Morgan                   461
        4. Geology after Hutton. Hugh Miller. Baden Powell           462
        5. Darwin                                                    464
        6. Robert Chambers                                           464
        7. Orthodox resistance. General advance                      465
        8. Triumph of evolutionism. Spencer. Clifford. Huxley        466

    Section 5.--The Sociological Sciences

        1. Eighteenth-century sociology. Salverte. Charles
           Comte. Auguste Comte                                      468
        2. Progress in England. Orthodoxy of Hallam. Carlyle.
           Grote. Thirlwall. Long                                    468
        3. Sociology proper. Orthodox hostility                      469
        4. Mythology and anthropology. Tylor. Spencer. Avebury.
           Frazer                                                    470

    Section 6.--Philosophy and Ethics

        1.  Fichte. Schelling. Hegel                                 471
        2.  Germany after Hegel. Schopenhauer. Hartmann              474
        3.  Feuerbach. Stirner                                       475
        4.  Arnold Ruge                                              478
        5.  Büchner                                                  478
        6.  Philosophy in France. Maine de Biran. Cousin. Jouffroy   479
        7.  Movement of Lamennais                                    480
        8.  Comte and Comtism                                        483
        9.  Philosophy in Britain. Bentham. James Mill. Grote.
            Political rationalism                                    484
        10. Hamilton. Mansel. Spencer                                485
        11. Semi-rationalism in the churches                         487
        12. J. S. Mill                                               489

    Section 7.--Modern Jewry

        Jewish influence in philosophy since Spinoza. Modern balance
        of tendencies                                                489

    Section 8.--The Oriental Civilizations

        Asiatic intellectual life. Japan. Discussions on Japanese
        psychosis. Fukuzawa. The recent Cult of the Emperor. China.
        India. Turkey. Greece                                        490


Conclusion                                                           499

Index                                                                503







CHAPTER XIII

THE RISE OF MODERN FREETHOUGHT--(Continued)


§ 4. England

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A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

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