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Wilson finds the starting point of socialist historical thinking in a little-known book-Principles of a New Science Dealing with the Nature of Nations, Through Which Are Shown Also New Principles of the Natural Law of Peoples. The author was an obscure, cranky, 18th-Century Neapolitan, Giovanni Battista Vico. Vico had read Francis Bacon. He decided that it was possible to apply to the study of human history the scientific methods Bacon applied to nature. Hitherto history had been written in terms of the lives of great men, as a chronicle of unusual events, as a show directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revolution's Evolution | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Your Heart," the best song of the play, was introduced in the first act: music by Pete Rollins and words by Bayard Clark. With proper handling, this song should easily reach high national popularity ratings. The other outstanding Rollins songs were "I Want to Be Investigated," "Un Chico Vico," and "Lonely Moon." Besides Bacon, Franklyn Tyler, Gardner Pierson, and Bayard Clark are especially good in their parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/27/1940 | See Source »

...uncensored report, however, stated that the murdered man's body had been found, terribly mutilated, on the shores of Lake Vico, and, fearing the consequences of a public funeral, the authorities had had it buried in the dead of night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Siege of Benito | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...lectures will take up the right of the science to be; and will consider its place, scope and mission as conceived by its founders, Vico, Comte, Spencer, Gumplowitcz, Ward and Tarde...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lectures by Professor Ross Today | 3/31/1902 | See Source »

...Lectures on Sociology. I. The Building of Sociology. The Right of the Science to be. Its Place, Scope and Mission as conceived by the great founders, Vico, Comte, Spencer, Gumplowicz, Ward and Tarde. Professor E. A. Ross, of the University of Nebraska. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 3/31/1902 | See Source »

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