Dialectics of Nature 1. INTRODUCTION MODERN natural science, which alone has achieved an all-round systematic and scientific development, as contrasted with the brilliant natural-philosophical intuitions of antiquity and the extremely important but sporadic discoveries of the Arabs, which for the most part vanished without results - this modern natural science dates, like all more recent history, from that mighty epoch which we Germans term the Reformation, from the national misfortune that overtook us at that time, and which the French term the Renaissance and the Italians the Cinquecento, although it is not fully expressed by any of these names. It is the epoch which had its rise in the last half of the fifteenth century. Royalty, with the support of the burghers of the towns, broke the power of the feudal nobility and established the great monarchies, based essentially on nationality, within which the modern European nations and modern bourgeois society came to develo...
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Frederick Engels' Dialectics of Nature Table of Contents Preface 1. , by J. B. S. Haldane Introduction1. Dialectics2. Basic Form of Motion3. The Measure of Motion - Work4. Heat5. Electricity6. Dialectics of Nature - Notes7. Tidal Friction, Kant and Thomson-Tait on the Rotation of the Earth and Lunar Attraction8. The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man9. Natural Science and the Spirit World10. Appendices Notes to Anti-Dühring1. Source References2. 3. Bibliography Transcribed 1998/2001 for MEIA by slr@marx.org , jjazz@hwcn.org . Marx Engels Archive | Preface 1883-Dialectics of Nature-Index http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm [06/06/2002 16:25:59] Engels' Dialectics of Nature Preface MARXISM has a two-...