 | Peter Gay - 1996 - Страниц: 756
...had been diffused even among savages, "can never be lost." Hence men may "acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race."6 And John Adams, probably... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2000 - Страниц: 350
...religious zeal have diffused among the savages of the Old and New world these inestimable gifts . . . every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race'. However, he added... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - Страниц: 1020
...(1781), im dritten Teil, über die Geschichte der Menschheit: "We may .... acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race" (am Ende von ch. 38;... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - Страниц: 776
...'relapse into their original barbarism'. At bottom, therefore, mankind could 'acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race'. Moreover, progress... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - Страниц: 604
...believed in progress is controverted: he appears unambiguously to adopt the notion of progress, arguing that 'every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race' ('General Observations... | |
 | Larry Conde - 2001 - Страниц: 120
...people who created it, and were willing to fight to protect it. Gibbon believed in history as Progress, "...every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race." 93 Thus, with Gibbon,... | |
 | John Lukacs - 2003 - Страниц: 244
...changed, will relapse into their original barbarism. . . . We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race." Gibbon died five... | |
 | Royal Historical Society - 2003 - Страниц: 516
...relapse into their original barbarism'. At bottom, therefore, mankind could 'acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race'. Moreover, progress... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - Страниц: 496
...have been successively propagated; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased and still increases the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race. (Decline and Fall,... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - 2004 - Страниц: 294
...of human life. Notes 1. Gibbon, in the original, states: "We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased and still increases the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race." Edward Gibbon, The... | |
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We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race. 
