One method is that pursued by Buckle in his "History of Civilization in England." The tendency of his work is the assertion of the supremacy of material conditions over the development of human history, and indeed of every individual mind. Here man is purely passive in the hands of nature.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy / or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought / in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His / Apostles
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