Outlines of the History of Religion Paperback -
by John Kells Ingram
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OUTLINES OF THE HISTORY OF RELIGION. It is in our time no longer necessary to establish by argument the possibility of treating the constitution and development of Society on strictly scientific bases. All writers worthy of any regard have, expressly or tacitly, admitted this conclusion. Those who still profess to regard social phenomena from the point of view of theology as produced by arbitrary and inscrutable wills, constantly contradict their own principles, and show that they really consider those phenomena to be subjected to natural law; whilst the partisans of metaphysical politics are unable to offer any explanation of the past, and, in the midstof the problems of the present, can do nothing but repeat the outworn and barren shibboleths of ' natural right' and ' popular sovereignty.' We have spoken of ' the constitution and development' of Society, because both these sides of sociological theory have to be kept in view. There are certain fundamental attributes of Society which are inherent in its natural constitution and reproduce themselves in all its various forms; and these are the object of study in Social Statics. But there is also a movement of Society in time, in the course of which it passes through successive phases; and the investigation of this movement is the office of Social Dynamics. The combination of these is necessary to constitute a rational sociology. It is obvious, indeed, that a theory of social movement implies a theory of the fundamental constitution of Society. Progress must mean the development of order; it is in history that the essential qualities of social Man must be with ever-increasing clearness revealed. History must present the picture of a growingrealisation of the system of life proper to true human nature, and resulting f...
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- Title Outlines of the History of Religion
- Author John Kells Ingram
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher General Books
- Date 10-Aug-2
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780217267250 / 0217267254
- Weight 0.17 lbs (0.08 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.07 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.18 cm)
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