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John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of the concept of political and social progress by looking at writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to consider what the history of the past hundred years would add to such an analysis. - Summary by Barry Ganong
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PrefaceIntroduction, Part 1Introduction, Part 2Chapter 1: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le RoyChapter 2: Utility the End of Knowledge: BaconChapter 3: CartesianismChapter 4: The Doctrine of Degeneration: The Ancients and ModernsChapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 1Chapter 5: The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle, Part 2Chapter 6: The General Progress of Man: Abbé de Saint-PierreChapter 7: New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, TurgotChapter 8: The Encyclopaedists and EconomistsChapter 9: Was Civilization a Mistake? Rousseau, ChastelluxChapter 10: The Year 2440Chapter 11: The French Revolution: CondorcetChapter 12: The Theory of Progress in EnglandChapter 13: German Speculations on ProgressChapter 14: Currents of Thought in France after the RevolutionChapter 15: The Search for a Law of Progress: I. Saint-SimonChapter 16: The Search for a Law of Progress: II. ComteChapter 17: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851)Chapter 18: Material Progress: The Exhibition of 1851Chapter 19: Progress in the Light of Evolution; and Epilogue