Modern thinkers principally upon social science;: what they think and why;

Preface; Introduction by R.G. Ingersoll; Sketch of the Life of Swedenborg; Emanuel Swedenborg, the origin of the Christian ideas Heaven, Hell and virtue; Sketch of the life of Adam Smith; Adam Smith, founder of the school of the economists; Sketch of the life of Jeremy Bentham; Jeremy Bentham, the A...

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Main Author: Denslow, Van Buren (Author)
Corporate Author: University of Toronto (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Chicago Belford 1880
In:Year: 1880
Further subjects:B Sociology
B General Works
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Summary:Preface; Introduction by R.G. Ingersoll; Sketch of the Life of Swedenborg; Emanuel Swedenborg, the origin of the Christian ideas Heaven, Hell and virtue; Sketch of the life of Adam Smith; Adam Smith, founder of the school of the economists; Sketch of the life of Jeremy Bentham; Jeremy Bentham, the Apostle of Law reform and of Utilitarianism in morals; Sketch of the life of thomas Paine; Thomas Pain, the apostle of chronic revolution in his relations to the Declaration of Independence, and democracy in America; Sketch of the life of Fourier; Charles Fourier the philosopher of passional harmony and cooperative association; Sketch of the life of Spencer; Herbert Spencer, a review of his theories of evolution and of morals; Sketch of the life of Haeckel; Ernst Haeckel, the demonstrator of the doctrine of evolution; Auguse Comte - founder of the positive philosophy and pontiff of the religion of humanity, including a sketch of his life; The authorship of Junius, a sequel to the critique on Thomas Paine; Wealth, a sequel to the Critique on Adam Smith.