A survey of human progress, from the savage state to the highest civilization yet attained : A progress as little perceived by the multitude in any age, as is the slow growing of a tree by the children who play under its shade - but which is leading to a new condition of mankind on Earth / by Neil Arnott.

  • Arnott, Neil, 1788-1874.
Date:
1861
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Credit: A survey of human progress, from the savage state to the highest civilization yet attained : A progress as little perceived by the multitude in any age, as is the slow growing of a tree by the children who play under its shade - but which is leading to a new condition of mankind on Earth / by Neil Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Human progress compared with the stationary condition of the lower animals, § 1. Man’s superiority is not in bodily strength, but in mental power. 2. The striking difference is in the use of language. 3. The progress of human art. 4. Picture of savage and civilized states. 5. The savages of Terra del Fuego. 6. The difference depends chiefly on the training. 7. The progress of civilization unperceived by the masses. 8. The fact that progress is the law of human nature but lately known. 9. Gradual improvement in schools and colleges. CHAPTER II. The gradual discovery that all objects and phsenomena in nature are but repetitions of a few types. § 10. The human race permanent, but individuals changing. 11. Children do not inherit knowledge from parents. 12. As a burning lamp requires oil, so do men require four necessaries. 13. The discovery made that all objects are of three classes. 14. And that all pliEenomena are of four classes. 15. Oravitation an exam])le of a general truth. 16. A child manifests the power of classifying. 17. Rut children and others of narrow experience liable to error.