The Progress Of the Century, by Alfred Russel Wallace, Ed

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Contributor

Thomson, Elihu, 1853-1937

Title

The Progress of the Century

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

Nineteenth century

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55546

Release Date

September 14, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.EVOLUTION — THE NATURE AND LIMITS OF EVOLUTION — THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION — THE FIRST REAL STEPS TOWARDS EVOLUTION — EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH’S CRUST — ORGANIC EVOLUTION, ITS LAWS AND CAUSES — THE THEORY OF “NATURAL SELECTION”
4. 4.CHEMISTRY
5. 5.ARCHÆOLOGY — EGYPT — MESOPOTAMIA — SYRIA — GREECE — ITALY — INDIA — AMERICA
6. 6.ASTRONOMY — THE POSITION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY — OBSERVATORIES — IMPROVEMENTS IN TELESCOPES — SPECTROSCOPIC ASTRONOMY — CELESTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY — CATALOGUES — INVESTIGATIONS OF SOME IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL CONSTANTS — SOME ACHIEVEMENTS OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS — STELLAR EVOLUTION — THE SUN AND HIS SYSTEM — THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL WEATHER
7. 7.PHILOSOPHY — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
8. 8.MEDICINE — INTRODUCTION — THE GROWTH OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE — THE GROWTH OF SPECIALISM — THE GROWTH OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE — SCIENCE OF BACTERIOLOGY — INFECTION—ITS PROCESSES AND RESULTS — PREVENTIVE MEDICINE — THE NEW DISPENSATION IN TREATMENT
9. 9.SURGERY — METHOD OF TEACHING — COLLEGE HOSPITALS — ESTABLISHMENT OF LABORATORIES — ANATOMICAL MATERIAL — MEDICAL LIBRARIES — EMBRYOLOGY — PATHOLOGY — ANÆSTHESIA — ANTISEPSIS — THE SURGERY OF WAR — BACTERIOLOGY — RESULTS OF MODERN SURGERY — SERUM TREATMENT — INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION — THE RÖNTGEN RAY — CITY AND VILLAGE HOSPITALS — TRAINED NURSES — SPECIAL OPERATIONS
10. 10.ELECTRICITY
11. 11.PHYSICS — HEAT — THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY — LIGHT — ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
12. 12.WAR
13. 13.NAVAL SHIPS — BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE TRANSITION — SAILING SHIPS AND BROADSIDE BATTERIES — DISAPPEARANCE OF BOW FIRE — THE FRIGATE AND HER GUNS — DUTIES OF THE FRIGATE — EARLY SHIPS OF THE LINE — ADVANTAGES OF THE SEVENTY-FOURS — BATTERIES SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO — BRITISH AND FRENCH STYLES OF FIGHTING — THEY HAD THEIR BREAK-DOWNS THEN, TOO — CONTEST OF ARMOR AND PROJECTILE — HORIZONTAL SHELL FIRE — THE COMING OF THE MONITOR — CRITICISM OF THE INFLEXIBLE — BATTLE-SHIPS OF THIS DAY — HISTORY’S TEACHING AND THE FUTURE — BATTLE-SHIPS THAT ARE TOO LARGE — THE GUN AND THE TORPEDO
14. 14.LITERATURE
15. 15.ENGINEERING — STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING — RAILWAYS — BRIDGE BUILDING — FOUNDATIONS, ETC. — HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING — MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING — METALLURGY AND MINING — INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING — CONCLUSION
16. 16.RELIGION — CATHOLICISM — THE VATICAN COUNCIL — THE MISSIONS OF CATHOLICISM — THE POPES OF THE CENTURY — THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY — THE CONGREGATION OF THE PROPAGANDA — RELIGIOUS ORDERS AND COMMUNITIES — THE UNITY OF CHRISTENDOM — CONVERSIONS TO CATHOLICISM — THE RELATIONS WITH CIVIL AUTHORITY — THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE UNITED STATES — THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND EDUCATION — THE SOCIAL MOVEMENT — LIGHTS AND SHADOWS — REASONS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT — THE FUTURE OF CATHOLICISM
17. 17.PROTESTANTISM — I — II — III
18. 18.THE JEWS AND JUDAISM — EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS — THE WANDERING JEW — COMMUNAL ORGANIZATION — ECONOMIC CONDITIONS — INTERNAL RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT — ANTI-SEMITISM — ZIONISM — THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
19. 19.FREE-THOUGHT
20. 20.Transcriber’s Notes

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