# Science and the modern world Author: Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947 Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+) Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Science+and+the+modern+world+Whitehead&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The progress of civilisation is not wholly a uniform drift towards better things. It may perhaps wear this aspect if we map it on a scale which is large enough. But such broad views obscure the details on which rest our whole understanding of the process. New epochs emerge with comparative suddenness, if we have regard to the scores of thousands of years throughout which the complete history extends. Secluded races suddenly take their places in the main stream of events: technological discoveries transform the mechanism of human life: a primitive art quickly flowers into full satisfaction of some aesthetic craving: great religions in their crusading youth spread through the nations the pe... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/science-and-the-modern-world-68611/chapters/11/index.md)