CIVILIZATION & PROGRESS: BEING THE OUTLINES OF A NEW SYSTEM OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS, AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY. BY JOHN BEATTIE CROZIER. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 1885. All Rights Reserved, INTRODUCTORY. In the present work I propose to trace the great laws of Civilization and Progress, and to exhibit, in as systematic a form as possible, the parts played respectively in Civilization by Religion, Government, Science, and the general Material and Social Conditions of the world. But just as in a watch the connexion of each wheel and movement with every other must be known and adjusted before the watch can be of any practical service; or as in an electrical apparatus the connexion between all the links of the circuit must be established before the machine can be made available for working purposes; so, until the laws which unite each of the great factors of Civilization with every other are known and understood, we cannot have a Theory of Civilization which will be of practical value, either as enabling us the better to understand the Past, or as affording us guidance for the Future; the failure to apprehend the part played by any one of the factors completely vitiating the practical value of the theory as a whole. Now although the illustrious Thinkers, who up to the present time have been engaged on the problem of Civilization, have succeeded, in the face of enormous difficulties, in establishing the true relations existing between certain of the factors, none of them, in my opinion, have clearly established the true relations existing B |