CONTENTS
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| I. | THE IDEA OF PROGRESS | [7] |
| By F. S. Marvin. | ||
| II. | PROGRESS IN PREHISTORIC TIMES | [27] |
| By R. R. Marett, Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford. | ||
| III. | PROGRESS AND HELLENISM | [48] |
| By F. Melian Stawell, late Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge. | ||
| IV. | PROGRESS IN THE MIDDLE AGES | [72] |
| By the Rev. A. J. Carlyle, Tutor and Lecturer at University College, Oxford. | ||
| V. | PROGRESS IN RELIGION | [96] |
| By Baron Friedrich von Hügel. | ||
| VI. | MORAL PROGRESS | [134] |
| By L. P. Jacks, Principal of Manchester New College, Oxford. | ||
| VII. | GOVERNMENT | [151] |
| By A. E. Zimmern, late Fellow of New College, Oxford. | ||
| VIII. | INDUSTRY | [189] |
| By A. E. Zimmern. | ||
| IX. | ART | [224] |
| By A. Clutton Brock. | ||
| X. | SCIENCE | [248] |
| By F. S. Marvin. | ||
| XI. | PHILOSOPHY | [273] |
| By J. A. Smith, Waynflete Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Oxford. | ||
| XII. | PROGRESS AS AN IDEAL OF ACTION | [295] |
| By J. A. Smith. |
I
THE IDEA OF PROGRESS
F. S. Marvin
The editor of these essays was busy in the autumn of last year collating the opinions attached by different people to the word 'progress'. One Sunday afternoon he happened to be walking with two friends in Oxford, one a professor of philosophy, the other a lady. The professor of philosophy declared that to him human progress must always mean primarily the increase of knowledge; the editor urged the increase of power as its most characteristic feature, but the lady added at once that to her progress had always meant, and could only mean, increase in our appreciation of the humanity of others.