The making of the modern mind.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Co. [c1940]Edition: Rev. ed. A survey of the intellectual background of the present age [by] John Herman RandallDescription: xiii, [3]-696 p. 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:- CB57 .R32 1940
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Bibliography at end of each chapter.
Introduction -- The intellectual outlook of medieval Christendom -- The coming of age of the western peoples -- The world as the scene of the drama of salvation -- The chief end of man: the enjoyment of eternal life -- The embodiment: the City of God -- The embodiment: lay society -- The new world of the Renaissance -- The new interests of the modern age: the natural man -- The religious reaction: the revolt from the medieval Church -- The revolt from feudalism and a united Christendom -- The new interests of the modern age: the world of nature -- The new scene of human life -- The order of nature: the development of thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The Newtonian world-machine -- The religion of reason -- The science of man: the sciences of human nature and business -- The science of man: the science of government -- The morality of reasonableness: humanitarianism -- The growing world: thought and aspiration in the last hundred years -- The romantic protest against the age of reason -- The conflict of social ideals to 1848 -- The world conceived as a process of growth and evolution -- The science of man in the growing world -- Religion in the growing world -- Philosophic reactions to the growing world of mechanism and naturalism -- Social ideals in the growing world.