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Truth, Belief, and Civilization: Tocqueville and Gobineau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

John Nef
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Extract

For more than a century there have been among the learned those who have tried to extend the outlook and the methods of the natural sciences to the study of man and to the behavior of human societies. Their efforts have raised issues which are of vital concern in the thermonuclear age which we have entered.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , October 1963 , pp. 460 - 482
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1963

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1 I myself have tried during the past two years to consider this subject from a somewhat different point of view than Morazé's, in two essays. One is contained in a chapter called “Religion and Man” in A Search for Civilization (Chicago: Regnery, 1962)Google Scholar. The other is the Smith Lecture in History, delivered in 1960 at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, now published as a brochure with the title Religion and the Study of Man.

2 See my “The Genesis of Industrialism and of Modern Science” in Essays in Honor of Conyers Read, ed. Downs, Norton (Chicago, 1953)Google Scholar.

3 A revised version has been published, Nef, John, “A New Christian View of History?” in Thought, XXXVII (1962), esp. pp. 349–55Google Scholar.

4 See also Nef, , Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (Cambridge, England, 1958)Google Scholar, also available as a Torchbook, Harper, and “Civilization, Industrial Society and Love,” pamphlet of The Center for theStudy of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara, 1960)Google Scholar.

5 The Race Concept, UNESCO (Paris, 1952), pp. 11–16Google Scholar.

6 Ibid., p. 19.

7 de Tocqupville, Alexis, Oeuvres Computes IX (Paris, 1959), 57Google Scholar.

8 Ibid., 45.

9 Matthew V, 43–44; XVIII, 4.

10 Matthew, XXIII, 8.

11 Ibid., XXIII, 9.

12 Tocqueville, , op. cit., IX, 45–46Google Scholar.

13 Moreira, Adriano, Portugal's Stand in Africa (New York, 1962), pp. 156–57 and passimGoogle Scholar.

14 Racine et Shakespeare, ed. Champion, Edouard (Paris, 1925), I, 91Google Scholar.

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16 Nef, John, Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization (Cambridge, England, 1958), especially pp. 105–108 and chapter VIGoogle Scholar.

17 Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines, p. 64.

18 Ibid., pp. 65, 67, 75.

19 Tocqueville, , op. cit., 261Google Scholar.

20 Ibid., 277.

21 Ibid., 280–81.

22 Nef, , A Search for Civilization, pp. 12–13Google Scholar.

23 African Heritage (1961).