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April 1921
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Psychological Bulletin
Reviews the book, The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth by J. B. Bury (1921). According to the reviewer, this work traces the origin and growth of one of the ruling social ideas of our age, but by its very criticism of that idea raises some of the deeper problems of social psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
... Baillie argued that progress theory evolved directly out of Jewish and Christian millenarianism's message of hope that a new world will be born. Bury (1932: 1–36) made a similar argument, but proposed Platonic apocalyptic thought as the basis of progress theory. 3.3. ...
April 1921
Psychological Bulletin
