The Intellectual Development of Europe (Vol. 1&2)

Draper's Intellectual Development of Europe in 2 volumes is a book based on an original and challenging idea of applying the methods of physical science to history. The author has undertaken the labor of arranging the evidence offered by the intellectual history of Europe in accordance with physiological principles, so as to illustrate the orderly progress of civilization, or collected the facts furnished by other branches of science with a view of enabling us to recognize clearly the conditions under which that progress takes place. Seen thus through the medium of physiology, history presents a new aspect to humanity as people gain a more just and thorough appreciation of the thoughts and motives of men in successive ages of the world.Contents:On the Government of Nature by LawOf Europe: Its Topography and EthnologyDigression on Hindu Theology and Egyptian CivilizationGreek Age of InquiryThe Greek Age of FaithThe Greek Age of ReasonThe Greek Age of Intellectual DecrepitudeDigression on the History and Philosophical Influences of RomeThe European Age of InquiryThe European Age of FaithThe Age of Faith in the WestDigression on the Passage of the Arabians to Their Age of ReasonThe Age of Faith in the West. The Three Attacks: Northern or Moral; Western or Intellectual; Eastern or MilitaryApproach of the Age of Reason in EuropeDigression on the Condition of England at the End of the Age of FaithThe European Age of ReasonThe Union of Science and IndustryConclusion – The Future of Europe