Progress of Mankind from the Bottom of the Scale. -Illustrated by Inventions Discoveries and Institutions. -Two Plans of Government. -One Gentile and Social, giving a Society, (Societas); the Other Political, giving a State, (Civitas). -The former founded upon Persons and Gentilism; the latter upon Territory and Property. -The First, the Plan of Government of Ancient Society. -The Second, that of Modern or Civilized Society. -Uniformity of Human Experience. -Proposed Ethnical Periods. -I. Lower Status of Savagery; II. Middle Status of Savagery; III. Upper Status of Savagery; IV. Lower Status of Barbarism; V. Middle Status of Barbarism; VI. Upper Status of Barbarism; VII. Status of Civilization.The latest investigations respecting the early condition of the human race, are tending to the conclusion that mankind commenced their career at the bottom of the scale and worked their way up from savagery to civilization through the slow accumulations of experimental knowledge.
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I. Older Period of Savagery | I. Lower Status of Savagery |
II. Middle Period of Savagery | II. Middle Status of Savagery |
III. Later Period of Savagery | III. Upper Status of Savagery |
IV. Older Period of Barbarism | IV. Lower Status of Barbarism |
V. Middle Period of Barbarism | V. Middle Status of Barbarism |
VI. Later Period of Barbarism | VI. Upper Status of Barbarism |
I. Lower Status of Savagery, | From the Infancy of the Roman Race to the commencement of the Next Period. |
II. Middle Status of Savagery, | From the acquisition of a fish subsistence and a knowledge of the use of fire, to etc. |
III. Upper Status of Savagery, | From the Invention of the Bow and Arrow, to etc. |
IV. Lower Status of Barbarism, | From the Invention of the Art of Pottery, to etc. |
V. Middle Status of Barbarism, | From the Domestication of animals on the Eastern hemisphere, and in the Western from the cultivation of maize and plants by Irrigation, with the use of adobe-brick and stone, etc. |
VI. Upper Status of Barbarism, | From the Invention of the process of Smelting Iron Ore, with the use of iron tools, to etc. |
VII. Status of Civilization, | From the Invention of a Phonetic Alphabet, with the use of writing, to the present time. |