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	Pride & Prejudice Analysis, Summary, Overview, Accomplishment & Human Development in Pride & Prejudice -- ...
		This is also a story of the accomplishment of English society, a society that chose an evolutionary path to social progress in preference to a destructive revolutionary movement like that which wracked France at the time.
		The society accomplished this evolution by opening up previously inaccessible levels of higher society to those with lesser status and wealth and by a conscious descent of those higher levels to embrace the life-renewing vitality of the bourgeois class.
		Human achievements are one expression of the universal process that governs all creative activity and accomplishment at the physical, vital, mental and spiritual level.
	www.gurusoftware.com /Gurunet/personal/PridePrejudiceProject/AccomplishmentDevelopment/1Introduction.htm (1622 words)

	Amazon.fr : Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 Bc to 1950: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Taking local biases into account, he assesses various regions' contributions to human accomplishment by tabulating how many figures from a specific part of the world are cited in 50 percent or more of standard encyclopedic compendia, including Islamic and Far Eastern sources.
		Murray makes the surprising assumption that humans are universally awed by complexity, so that the fashion must eventually swing back to all thinking people's readily acknowledging that the Venus de Milo exceeds in sophistication the carving of an indigenous tribesman.
		All humans have music, for example, but indigenous peoples need no music-appreciation training to embrace their unwritten songs and dance accompaniments.
	www.amazon.fr /Human-Accomplishment-Pursuit-Excellence-Sciences/dp/006019247X (1490 words)

	AEI - Books
		Human beings have discovered truths about the physical world, invented devices to improve their daily lives, produced works of art that inspire our deepest emotions, and arranged words in such a manner as to illuminate the mysteries of the human condition.
		But the underlying stuff of human accomplishment does indeed consist of good stories, and a sense of that stuff is essential if the numbers and graphs are to be kept in context.
		The thesis regarding purpose is that a major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.
	www.aei.org /books/bookID.453,filter.all/book_detail2.asp (2354 words)

	The American Enterprise: For God’s Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Likewise, human accomplishment is fostered by a culture that encourages people to believe they can act efficaciously as individuals, and enables them to do so.
		Christianity’s revolutionary potential begins with its core teachings that all human beings are invited into a personal relationship with God, that all individuals are equal in God’s sight regardless of their earthly station, and that salvation is available to all who believe and act accordingly.
		Aquinas made the case that human intelligence is a gift from God, and that to apply human intelligence to understanding the world is not an affront to God but pleasing to Him; that faith and reason are not in opposition, but complementary.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.17710/article_detail.asp (3556 words)

	History of Human Accomplishment
		Whether one can compile a history of human accomplishment in terms of his parts of being, psychology, skills, or other endowments and how far it can help us measure human accomplishment today is this endeavour.
		Human accomplishment is the accomplishment of human energy, skill, capacity, knowledge, values, etc.
		One’s accomplishment often appears to be self-explanatory, as many people are able to know an approximate measure of it.
	www.motherservice.org /Essays/HistoryofHumanAccomp.htm (1178 words)

	Book Review: Human Accomplishment, Charles Murray
		In Human Accomplishment Charles Murray sets out to describe the main human achievements from 800 BC to 1950 in music, literature and the visual arts, as well as medicine and the physical sciences.
		Above all, he says, human accomplishment has been greatest when humans have believed that their lives had a higher purpose.
		When humans were deprived of certain comforting simplicities and exposed to more complex knowledge about the world, they unwisely reacted by thinking that they were possessed of wisdom that invalidated all that had gone before.
	www.civitas.org.uk /pubs/MurrayHumanAccomp.php (678 words)

	Self-efficacy defined
		In all, this social cognitive view of human and collective functioning, which marked a departure from the prevalent behaviorist and learning theories of the day, was to have a profound influence on psychological thinking and theorizing during the last two decades of the twentieth century and into the new millennium.
		Of all the thoughts that affect human functioning, and standing at the very core of social cognitive theory, are self-efficacy beliefs, "people's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances" (p.
		There may be disincentives and performance constraints; that is, even highly self-efficacious and well-skilled people may choose not to behave in concert with their beliefs and abilities because they simply lack the incentive to do so, because they lack the necessary resources, or because they perceive social constraints in their envisioned path or outcome.
	www.des.emory.edu /mfp/eff.html (5133 words)

	Accounting for Human Achievement \| Daily Policy Digest \| NCPA
		In his new book, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, Charles Murray identifies the 4,002 most significant figures in the arts and sciences throughout human history.
		An overwhelming proportion of the most accomplished individuals are found in Europe from 1400 to the mid-19th century -- but the frequency of outstanding artistic accomplishment has since declined.
		Human accomplishment is also fostered by cultures in which the most talented people believe that life has purpose and individuals can act effectively to fulfill that purpose.
	www.ncpa.org /sub/dpd/index.php?page=article&Article_ID=4323 (309 words)

	Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - The Idea of Progress: Once Again, with Feeling
		Think of human accomplishment as the résumé of our species, the things we have done that make us proud to be human, our cumulative legacy as a species—accomplishments as varied as the Chartres Cathedral and the abacus, the Brandenberg concertos and the water wheel, the Nichomachean Ethics and penicillin.
		Imagine each of these discrete accomplishments as a line in a database, accompanied by variables designating the prevailing political system, level of wealth, and population of the country where it happened and such variables as the education, age, gender, and parentage of the people who were responsible for the accomplishment.
		Suppose you are in my position and are setting out to assemble a database of human accomplishment in the field of, let us say, the understanding of human nature as it relates to social behavior—a critical topic in deciding how societies should be governed.
	www.hoover.org /publications/digest/3467936.html (2771 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		Human accomplishment consists of doing something new or better than others have done—an easy thing to say, not so easy actually to achieve.
		Now imagine that we can take the range of human accomplishment from the Cathedral at Chartres to the industrial process that lets crystal be joined to the casing of a watch and assemble a large sample of such events, so large that the things we have left out cannot change the picture.
		The different shapes of human accomplishments—the differences between accomplishment in the arts, which seems to move in waves, and accomplishments in philosophy and religion, which seems to occur in spikes, and accomplishment in science and technology, which seems to be cumulative.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.8885,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (6876 words)

	Amazon.com: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950: Books: Charles ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the first attempt to quantify the accomplishment of individuals and countries worldwide in the fields of arts and sciences by calculating the amount of space allocated to them in reference works.
		The author is a statistician and bases his compilations of the highest accomplishing individuals in both the arts and sciences by relying on the appearance of their names among the works of experts.
		And somewhat removed from human contexts, it could also be applied very robustly to the measurement and grading of machine intelligence, which a perusal of the research literature will show that the latter has been extremely difficult to do.
	www.amazon.com /Human-Accomplishment-Pursuit-Excellence-Sciences/dp/006019247X (5485 words)

	Culture’s Bell Curve
		The result is his gracefully written and enthralling Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950.
		Aquinas made the case, eventually adopted by the Church, that human intelligence is a gift from God, and that to apply human intelligence to understanding the world is not an affront to God but is pleasing to him.
		From 1850 to 1950, per capita accomplishment tended to decline, which is especially striking considering the huge spread of education.
	www.amconmag.com /11_17_03/review.html (1656 words)

	Book review by JD
		The data set he investigates in Human Accomplishment, the ocean on which he sailed for the five years it took him to write this book, is the record of accomplishment at the highest levels in art, music, literature, philosophy, and science.
		For instance, Murray's analyses seem to show that the rates of human accomplishment in both arts and sciences (yes, yes, allowing for population — never imagine you can think of something Murray has not already thought of) have been declining since the middle of the 19th century.
		It is simply the case that practically all the great accomplishments of the human race since a.d.
	olimu.com /journalism/Texts/Reviews/HumanAccomplishment.htm (1295 words)

	Vinod's Blog:Human Accomplishment
		Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray has been on the list for a while and I've been chipping away at it in bits and pieces in between other work.
		In Human Accomplishment, Murray wears all the hats - he's the primary character making the argument, creating the methodology, and reporting the results.
		So, for example, Isaac Newton gets a weighted score of 100 in the physics category because he is referenced in every single book on physics surveyed and often with passages devoted to his work as long as any other individual surveyed.
	www.vinod.com /blog/Books/HumanAccomplishment.html (1087 words)

	Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences -- February 2004 Education Reporter
		Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences 800 B.C. to 1950, Charles Murray, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003, 458 pps.
		Human Accomplishment employs persuasive statistical techniques to list the most significant historical figures in the arts and sciences, including a top-20 ranking in each field.
		He insightfully analyzes the resilience of accomplishment amid adverse conditions such as warfare and plague; the dearth of female significant figures; the flowering of Jewish achievement after anti-Semitic restrictions were lifted; and the more recent rise of U.S. accomplishment.
	www.eagleforum.org /educate/2004/feb04/book.html (396 words)

	Human accomplishment
		Murray examines why outstanding accomplishment is not evenly distributed among various cultures.
		Human Accomplishment examines Eastern religions, Islam, and early Christianity and concludes that none of them combined purpose and individuality in a way that pushed creative accomplishment.
		Murray goes even further and says it is harder for an agnostic or an atheist than a Christian to find purpose, because "devotion to a human cause, whether social justice, the environment, the search for truth, or an abstract humanism, is by its nature less compelling than devotion to God.
	www.stornowayfreenews.com /human_accomplishment.htm (433 words)

	Book Review: Human Accomplishment, by Charles Murray, 11/20/03.
		It is titled Human Accomplishment: the Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950.
		Murray's methodology is to quantify human accomplishment in many of the sciences, technology, art, and literature over a nearly three millennium period (800 B.C. through 1950) by resorting to what others have written about these fields.
		He writes that "Streams of accomplishment are fostered by political regimes that give de facto freedom of action to their potential artists and scholars".
	www.techlawjournal.com /series/innovation_03/20031120_murray.asp (3150 words)

	Safe Haven \| Preservation of Capital \|
		"Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950" (HarperCollins, $29.95) is a fascinating attempt to rank the 4,000 most important artists and scientists in human history.
		Reading "Human Accomplishment" is a little like browsing through the statistics-laden "Baseball Encyclopedia," except that instead of being about Ruth, Di Maggio, and Bonds, Murray's book is about Picasso, Darwin, and Edison.
		You argue that one big reason that most of humanity's highest achievers came from what used to be called Christendom was...
	www.safehaven.com /forums-19590.htm (1899 words)

	Hudson Institute > American Outlook > American Outlook Article Detail
		After subjecting the data to various statistical adjustments, those accomplishments that feature in the most references are, he asserts, likely to represent the pinnacles of manâs achievement.
		If he is suggesting that we may be on the verge of scientific discoveries that could transform our understanding of the sources of human accomplishment, logically this must substantially dilute the importance of much of what he is trying to say about that topic now.
		One of the most refreshing aspects of this book is the critical importance attached to the individual: âone may acknowledge the undoubted role of the cultural context in fostering or inhibiting great art, but still recall that it is not enough that the environment be favorable.
	www.americanoutlook.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=article_detail&id=3434 (2383 words)

	TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 11. Murray: Whites Win!. . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Human Accomplishment takes that one step further, expanding Murray's musings on hierarchies of accomplishment to the entire history of human civilization.
		This book sets out to prove mathematically that, as the author writes in his introduction, "The dimensions and content of human accomplishment can be apprehended as facts.
		Using a measure called "historiometry" (which essentially measures the number of references to great people and discoveries in relatively neutral texts), Murray offers what he claims is objective evidence that in the history of human progress, the most credit—about 97 percent, in fact—is owed to … the West, much of that thanks to Christianity.
	www.prospect.org /print/V14/11/devil1.html (460 words)

	Denis Dutton on Charles Murray
		In Human Accomplishment, Murray’s aim is nothing less than to determine the geographic and chronological distribution of creative genius in science and the arts across the whole of the world during twenty-eight centuries, from 800
		These two spheres of human endeavor represent two kinds of potential objectivity: there is as little chance of the human race giving up Homer or the Beethoven symphonies as there is that it will give up the notion that the earth is a sphere.
		Accomplishment requires “a well-articulated vision of, and use of, the transcendental good relevant to that domain.” These values are the true, the good, and the beautiful —; the first central to science, the last to art, and the second to both science and art.
	denisdutton.com /murray_review.htm (2931 words)

	Crunching the numbers on humanity's finest moments
		Though his announced goal is to produce a resume of the best of the human species by looking at worldwide achievement, the actual territory he covers is more limited.
		In a larger sense, it turns human achievement into a political spitting contest, and these conclusions can be used to justify imposing the will of the higher achieving nations on the inferior.
		This little chunk of human time and place Murray deals with has been done to death and needs to be put into a more significant context.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/23/RV81973.DTL (843 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Key: When Life Begins
		Although Wilmut said it would be "offensive" to clone a human being, he indicated that the technology for replicating human life is within reach.
		On the one hand, the attempt to create human life seems the worst form of pride, and all the more sinful when one attempts to create a more perfect humanity or a human made in one's own image.
		Besides the questions involving human cloning, the church must ask if the ownership and manipulation of animal life and species is consistent with the command to have dominion over the earth.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/science/cloning/cloning7.htm (883 words)

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