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4557	Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)	The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth			.txt	text/plain	99994	5045	62	CHAPTER VI THE GENERAL PROGRESS OF MAN: ABBE DE SAINT-PIERRE history, we are generally thinking of those ideas which express human The idea of human Progress then is a theory which involves a [Footnote: The history of the idea of Progress has been treated His general view of the course of human history was not materially work announces a new view of history which is optimistic regarding man's of man, but of a progress in human knowledge. progress of the human mind in regard to natural science, and in regard idea of the general Progress of man. in physical science is part of the progress of the "universal human took the nature of human reason would have ensured a progress in in history is conditioned by the nature and development of ideas." his advanced age he accepts the idea of Progress, so far as it could be progression and, like nature, subject to general laws.	./cache/4557.txt	./txt/4557.txt