HISTORY FOR EVERYMAN
|F the H-bomb blasted our civilisation to bits and" Western man returned to the culture of the Stone Age, would he develop again through all the various stages, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, up to the Steam Age and the Atomic Age as he has done before? This is one of the questions asked by Professor G. A. F. Knight, a speaker in the series of talks on Lessons of History, which begins from Station 2YC at 8.15 p.m. on Thursday, July 29. There are five talks in the series, the first speaker being Dr. Peter Munz, of Victoria University College. Dr. Munz discusses the changes in our concepts of the past which have occurred since the 17th Century, when history was explained in Biblical terms. Two main kinds of pattern have been thought out to explain man’s development by modern historians, the pattern of progress and the pattern of the life-cycle. The theories of Spengler and Toynbee are contrasted, and the idea of progress is analysed. Other speakers are Professor W. T. G. Airey, who discusses
"History and Science,’ the Rev. G. H. Duggan, whose theme is "The Limitations of History,’ and Dr. J. G..A. Pocock, who will talk on "The History of History."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 15
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209HISTORY FOR EVERYMAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 783, 23 July 1954, Page 15
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