Rational Evolution
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Rational Evolution

The Making of Humanity

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eBook - ePub

Rational Evolution

The Making of Humanity

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Published in 1919: The author discusses the development of Humanity from Evolution to Civilisation to the birth of Nations and European Liberations.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780367180720
eBook ISBN
9780429602177
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences
INDEX
‘Abbâssids, 135, 141.
‘Abd al-Letif, 144.
‘Abd al-Rahman, 159.
Abdera, 68.
AbĂŠlard, Peter, 169, 174, 219.
Absolute power always bad, 207.
Absolutism of kings, early curtailed in England, 200–201; elsewhere more persistent, 201.
AbĂť-Bakr, 136.
Abû ’l-Kasim, 152.
Abû ’l-Wafâ 141.
Abu-Simbel, 57.
Abydos, 42, 50, 67.
Achaean tribes, 65.
Achaioi, 56.
Acton, Lord, 208, 260.
Adaptation, 10, 18–19; the measure of man’s progress, 236; as a biological requirement, has made justice the condition of social organism’s survival, 239–240.
Addison, 189.
Adelaide, Queen, 229.
Adelhard of Bath, 149, 152.
Adonis, 70.
Adoptionist heresy, 169.
Adramytos, 130.
Africa, 187.
African savages’ self-deception, 21.
Agape, 101.
Agathon, 79.
‘Age of chivalry’ a mirage, 268.
Agesilaos, 78.
Ahura Mazda, 80.
Akhenaten, 49.
Akkad, 42.
Akropolis, 61, 68.
Alaric, 106, 109, 114.
Al-Batâni, 141, 149, 153.
Alberoni, 194.
Albert, Prince Consort, 230.
Albertus Magnus, 152, 172.
Albigensian Crusade, 161, 201.
Alboin, 114.
Al-ByrĂťny, 143.
Alchemy, 142, 145–146.
Alcuin of York, 119, 121, 168.
Aldo Manucci, 183.
Alexander, 44, 79–80; his empire, 99.
Alexander of Neckam, 152.
Alexandria, 95, 99, 141.
Al-Farabi, 171, 172.
Al-Farâni, 140.
Alfonso le Sage, 150.
Alfonso V of Leon, 160; Alfonso VI, 160, 179.
Alfred, King, 118.
Algebra, created by Arabs, 145.
Al-Ghazali, 167.
Algorism, 150.
Al-Haithâm, 150.
Alkaios of Lesbos, 66.
Al-katan, 171.
Al-Khwarismi, 150.
Alkibiades, 78.
Al-Kindi, 172....

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. I. MAN THE CREATOR
  8. II. MAN’S MEANS OF EVOLUTION
  9. III. PRIMAL STUPIDITY
  10. IV. CIVILIZATION AND IRRATIONALISM
  11. V. THE SECRET OF THE EAST
  12. VI. THE HELLENIC LIBERATION
  13. VII. PAX ROMANA
  14. VIII. BARBARISM AND BYZANTINISM
  15. IX. DÂR AL-HIKMET (The Home of Science)
  16. X. THE REBIRTH OF EUROPE
  17. XI. THE SOI-DISANT RENAISSANCE
  18. XII. THE BIRTH OF NATIONS
  19. XIII. REASON’S BATTLE FOR JUSTICE
  20. XIV. EUROPEAN LIBERATIONS
  21. XV. THE MORALITY OF PROGRESS AND THE PROGRESS OF MORALS
  22. XVI. WHAT IS PROGRESS?
  23. INDEX