The Truth-Seeker in Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, Ed. by F.r. Lees and G.s. Phillips. [Continued As] the Truth-Seeker and Present Age - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849. Excerpt: ... SYSTEMATIC HISTORY: OK, A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE TEN SOCIETAEY STATES. (he Science of Society is the philosophy and system of History. Societary Science is the true foundation of Societary Art. It is what Memory is to the Thinker, in the evolution of his new combinations. It is the experience of the past and of the present, inspiring and regulating with prophetic vision the destiny of the future. History, vulgarly so called, however, is not societary science, altho related to it. It is merely a chronology without system--an indiscriminate collection of dates and occurrences, often irrelevant, often trivial, and but seldom connected with the great progressive developments of society, and those markt societary phases which best offer themselves for a systematic classification of historic states. The subject of societary science, the systematic classification of the great phases of society, is a novel idea. History indeed we have had, in learned tomes, in ponderous volumes; but this history gives societary facts according to date, and not according to state. It is a thing of time, and not of essence. It deals with chronology, and eschews psychology. It measures by Olympiads, lustrums, and hejirahs, but not by organic phases, or data of positive societary progress. As an introduction to a better classified system of history, in connection with Societary Science and Art, we present a brief synopsis of the principal phases of history, thro an outline of the chief states of society which have been developed more or less in the world. In analyzing society in relation to its progress, we find these societary states to be ten in number. As the classifications of science demand a certain unitary and definite nomenclature, and an algebraic abbreviation of expression, ...