J.B.Bury’s works – 1913

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HISTORY OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT

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by John B. Bury

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Rodin – the thinker (1880)

[sd-1913] 1st ed. cover

[sd-1913] 1st ed. front page

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Certain features of our “progress” may be urged as presumptions in its favour [a movement in a desirable direction], but there are always offsets, and it has always been easy to make out a case that, from the point of view of increasing happiness, the tendencies of our progressive civilisation are far from desirable. In short, it cannot be proved that the unknown destination towards which man is advancing is desirable. The movement may be Progress, or it may be in an undesirable direction and therefore not Progress.

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John B. Bury (1861-1927)

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