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Some Influences in Modern Philosophic Thought

Some Influences in Modern Philosophic Thought

Hadley, Arthur Twining

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ISBN10: 1151601985
ISBN13: 9781151601988
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX II THE INFLUENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN ON HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HE theories of Charles Darwin found readier and prompter acceptance among historians than among biologists. When Darwin presented the doctrine of natural selection to the zoologists and botanists he was confronting them with a new set of scientific ideas and conceptions. His contemporaries were reluctant to accept these new ideas. They had been brought up to regard different species as having been created independently. The idea that types could be modified by slow process of change was something foreign to their minds. The idea that existing types simply represented the result of successful experiment in a field where the unsuccessful experiments had been eliminated by death was still more novel and repugnant. It was not until the generation after Darwin that his fellow biologists as a class were ready to abandon the idea of special acts of creation for specific purposes and to search instead for the slow operation of natural causes. In history and in politics the case was different. All students of history accepted the idea of evolution in their own field of special study; most of them regarded historical evolution as the result of a process of natural selection. Without an underlying idea of evolution human history is a meaningless chronicle, unworthy of the attention of intelligent men. If different historical events were independent of one another there would be no sense yi writing history at all. All serious investigators in this field, from Thucydides and Aristotle down to the present time, have sought either to develop the details of this orderly and gradual evolution or to lay down the principles of its operation. The man who today reads the Politics of Aristotle for th...

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