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Excerpt from The Science of Universal History: Its Method and Its Relation to the Physical Sciences
In a word, each individual man, as he comes into the world, is destined to lead his highest life by virtue of his organic connection with the life of the whole human race, and it is the successive ex pansions and overlapsof this race - life, as witnessed in the progress of man from savagery to barbarism, from barbarism to the rudiments of civilization, and from the rudiments of civilization to the highest cul minations which civilization has reached to-day, that the Science of Universal History aims to unfold in an orderly and a logical con tinuity. In this way the calculus of universal history, working with the fixed points which mark the successive stages of the human race as it has moved along the ascending gradients of the world's culture, believes itself to be working with the factors of a positive knowledge in tentatively constructing from time to time the line and the law of the social evolution.
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