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The Idea of Progress

CHAPTER XIV
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Herder's "Ideas" were translated by Edgar Quinet, Lessing's Education by Eugene Rodrigues.

Cousin sat at the feet of Hegel.

At the same time a new master, full of suggestiveness for those who were interested in the philosophy of history, was discovered in Italy.

The "Scienza nuova" of Vico was translated by Michelet.
The book of Vico was now a hundred years old.

I did not mention him in his chronological place, because he exercised no immediate influence on the world.


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