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Most people , we imagine , understand by civilisation the process of acquiring and applying knowledge or of accumulating wealth , but Mr. Buckle , though he never enters into detailed explanations on the point , seems to give the word a ...
Most people , we imagine , understand by civilisation the process of acquiring and applying knowledge or of accumulating wealth , but Mr. Buckle , though he never enters into detailed explanations on the point , seems to give the word a ...
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regulated by the total knowledge of which mankind is possessed . ' ( P. 208. ) Mr. Buckle would probably himself acknowledge that this is the fundamental proposition of his whole book ; but we must be permitted to say that a proposition ...
regulated by the total knowledge of which mankind is possessed . ' ( P. 208. ) Mr. Buckle would probably himself acknowledge that this is the fundamental proposition of his whole book ; but we must be permitted to say that a proposition ...
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England in the present day possesses a greater accumulation of knowledge than Italy ; in the 15th and 16th centuries Italy and Spain were probably far more learned than England ; yet if we may judge by the acceptance met with by the ...
England in the present day possesses a greater accumulation of knowledge than Italy ; in the 15th and 16th centuries Italy and Spain were probably far more learned than England ; yet if we may judge by the acceptance met with by the ...
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