The Logic of History

abstract action ancient appears arithmetic become believe biological bourgeois century cerebral certitudes chance changes Christianity Claude Lévi-Strauss collective common conflicts confront conquest cultures deeds Descartes destiny discovered discoveries effect effort Egyptian mathematics elementary emotive epoch especially Europe event evolution example experience experimentation expression facts faith forces function gives Henri Wallon historian human human evolution imaginative faculty immense importance infinite inspired intellectual invention Ionia Jean Piaget Karl Friedrich Gauss knowledge labor language laws Leonardo of Pisa less lessons linked living logic longer Marx Marxism mathematics memory mental code milieu millenia monotheisms Morazé myths nature Nazism Nevertheless objects organization original passions past permit pertinent political possible prevail production progress rational reality reason reflection representations rue Saint-Guillaume scientific social society structures success syllogism symbols Theseus things tion transfigured form transformed Translator's note vocable