Author: Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Prime Minister
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Category : Malawi
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: John Bunyan
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Ronald Wright
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847064
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Each time history repeats itself, so it's said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? can it be consolidated or sustained? and what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.

Author: John Bagnell Bury
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Samantha Rothenberg
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Category : Lithography, American
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Author: John Bagnell Bury
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Robert A. Nisbet
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ISBN: 9780435826574
Category : Progress
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: John Bagnell Bury
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Adam Ferguson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: Perennial Press
ISBN: 1531263429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation. For the earthly Progress of humanity is the general test to which social aims and theories are submitted as a matter of course. The phrase CIVILISATION AND PROGRESS has become stereotyped, and illustrates how we have come to judge a civilisation good or bad according as it is or is not progressive. The ideals of liberty and democracy, which have their own ancient and independent justifications, have sought a new strength by attaching themselves to Progress. The conjunctions of "liberty and progress," "democracy and progress," meet us at every turn. Socialism, at an early stage of its modern development, sought the same aid. The friends of Mars, who cannot bear the prospect of perpetual peace, maintain that war is an indispensable instrument of Progress. It is in the name of Progress that the doctrinaires who established the present reign of terror in Russia profess to act. All this shows the prevalent feeling that a social or political theory or programme is hardly tenable if it cannot claim that it harmonises with this controlling idea...