Evolution; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy and religion
III. POLITICAL ORGANIZATION.—The evolution of governments, general
and local, as determined by natural causes; their several types
and metamorphoses; their increasing complexity and specialization;
and the progressive limitation of their functions.
VOL. II.
IV. ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION.—Tracing the differentiation of
religious government from secular; its successive complications
and the multiplication of sects; the growth and continued
modification of religious ideas, as caused by advancing knowledge
and changing moral character; and the gradual reconciliation of
these ideas with the truths of abstract science.
V. CEREMONIAL ORGANIZATION.—The natural history of that third kind
of government which, having a common root with the others, and
slowly becoming separate from and supplementary to them, serves to
regulate the minor actions of life.
VI. INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION.—The development of productive and
distributive agencies, considered, like the foregoing, in its
necessary causes: comprehending not only the progressive division
of labour, and the increasing complexity of each industrial
agency, but also the successive forms of industrial government as
passing through like phases with political government.
VOL. III.
VII. LINGUAL PROGRESS.—The evolution of Languages regarded as a
psychological process determined by social conditions.
VIII. INTELLECTUAL PROGRESS.—Treated from the same point of view:
including the growth of classifications; the evolution of science
out of common knowledge; the advance from qualitative to
quantitative prevision, from the indefinite to the definite, and
from the concrete to the abstract.
IX. ÆSTHETIC PROGRESS.—The Fine Arts similarly dealt with: tracing
their gradual differentiation from primitive institutions and from
each other; their increasing varieties of development; and their
advance in reality of expression and superiority of aim.
X. MORAL PROGRESS.—Exhibiting the genesis of the slow emotional
modifications which human nature undergoes in its adaptation to
the social state.
XI. THE CONSENSUS.—Treating of the necessary interdependence of
structures and of functions in each type of society, and in the
successive phases of social development.[4]
THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALITY.
VOL. I.
PART I. THE DATA OF MORALITY.—Generalizations furnished by
Biology, Psychology and Sociology, which underlie a true theory of
right living: in other words, the elements of that equilibrium
between constitution and conditions of existence, which is at once
the moral ideal and the limit towards which we are progressing.
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