Vestiges of Civilization: Or, The Aetiology of History, Religious, Aesthetical, Political and Philosophical

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Fallacy of the Metaphysical Schools illustrated in the Monkish Liturgies
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This established deductively confirmed from a noted error of Gall
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48 There are fundamentally but two motives pleasure and pain
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These mental modes or Processes reducible to nine and resolvable into
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These three series of perceptive Processes result from three progressive
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ANALYSIS OF METHOD
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CHAPTER III
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Three specific forms of each cycle or kind determined deductively
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Like verification of the three systems Condillacs theory and its critics
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Induction in its Vital and Volitional Cycles unfolds the same series
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Procedure in the former by Divinification why the first Cycle is named
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PART II
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The three axioms submitted by the theory to be tested by history their
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Grammatical forms of all idioms and their true principle of classification
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Natural formation of languages explained and exemplified
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POETRY
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Social epic its theme Woman begins with satirizing her why
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Difference of epoch and diversity of authorship of the two Homeric epics
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Artificial or imitated epics ancient and modern
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The LYRIC form its three stages exemplified historically
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The theory verified also in the modifications of metre
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The DRAMA definition of origin and elements in ancient Greece
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Nature of the Chorus infant drama of the Mexicans and Hindoos
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Historical analysis of in Greece Eschylus Sophocles and Euripides
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Its province and three progressive forms determined
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Explains the Egyptian Hieroglyphics and all graphical systems
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Rationale of the phonetical alphabet the vowelpointing of the Hebrew
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Colouring an accessory of the origin of painting Hindoo example
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Pottery the primary form of then Casting early proficiency of both ib 89 Typography the third form conformity to the general law of progression
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PAINTING
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Historic subsequence of and origin as a distinct art
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New division of and generic character established historically
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That Masonry is a fine art proved in the history of the arch
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Its primitive erections successively tombs temples palaces
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Tumular formation of first rockcut and ending in necropoli why
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Next stage Mounded ends in the pyramid why ib 96 Third stage Sepulchral and ends in the labyrinth
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All illustrated in the architecture of Egypt India China Etruria c
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Classification of the Obelisk of the round towers of Ireland c
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Transition from the tomb to the temple thence to the templepalace the styles of architecture
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General character of in the first Cycle styles conformable to the theory
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Origin of and progressive stagesSurgery Pharmacy Hygienic
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Ancient and modern schools of place of Homeopathy all conforma ble to the theory
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Same progression in curing the body politic Punishment Employ ment Education
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WAR progressive principles of Number Evolution Expedition
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Conformity of the whole to the three tests of the theory
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Philosophy of the Heathen Religions PAGE 116 Definition of religions in general principles of Force Fraud Duty
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Ministers of their origin and relations to society
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Division of Religion into Divinities Rites Doctrines
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General distinction of into Good and Evil illustrated ib 120 The Evil earliest first instance Night this the Inorganic formation
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Common subdivision of both classes into Inorganic Organic Social
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Fetichistic worship divinification of their food by savages the Cath olic eucharist
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The first or Sabeistic worship in its gods of Goodness
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Why man divinifies himself the last of all objects ib 125 Origin and nature of Polytheism or heroworship
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Receptacles of the deified Spirit first Inorganic such as tombs stars
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Next Organic vegetables and animals the latest mythology of Egypt
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Why its civilization here failed cause of the riddle of the Sphinx 325
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This resolved in Greek statuary which supplied the final class of en velopes for the gods
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Progressive division of into Sacrifice Ceremony Prayer
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Curious exemplifications of their conformity to the theory
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Turn all upon a future life notion of necessary in mental infancy
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After existence come the considerations of form and place the Forms
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Historically illustrated in the usages of all primitive nations
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Gradual abstraction of the spirit from the buried body exemplified
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Death considered by savages an absence hence it has no proper name in their idioms
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Successive efforts to preserve the body Inhumation Embalming In cremation
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Origin explanation and illustration of the Metempsychosis
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Their regular apposition in high and low localities along the earth ib 141 Their uniform direction to the West explained
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The future state of the first Cycle not one of reward and punish ment error of Warburtons Divine Legation explained
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That the Hebrews belonged to this barbarous period proved from various criteria
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Concluding reflections
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How man himself could in both have been the type of conception
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The Greek sects of the physical epoch Ionic Eleatic Italic
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Division of these the Academic Epicurean and Stoic systems as types
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Explanation of the correlative terms simple and complex general
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Historical career of the Jews their prophesies of a messiah brought
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Solution of the problem of Evil by the Mosaic cosmogeny
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The three Mathematical forms alone attained in this Cycle
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CHAPTER I
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Successive origin and order of dignity among arts and institutions
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Occasion of Interpretation its three principles first result in Dog
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Triumph of the heretical principle of Human will over the Divine
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Representative of the two instruments of ProgressAbuse and Disorder
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Does the end justify the means? the question debated between a Jesuit
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Conclusion that Society is a natural body or being the highest of
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Synthetic formation of Christianity Socinianism Rationalism
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