Certain Movements in England and America which Influenced the Transition from the Ideals of Personal Righteousness of the Seventeenth Century to the Modern Ideals of Social Service: A Disertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

This volume represents the doctoral dissertation of George Tilden Colman, submitted to the University of Chicago in 1912. It emerged from a period in American academia characterized by a growing intellectual shift toward the Social Gospel movement, which sought to reconcile traditional Christian ethics with the systemic challenges posed by rapid industrialization and urban poverty at the turn of the twentieth century.

The work serves as a historical examination of the moral and philosophical transformation in English and American thought. By tracing the move from seventeenth-century individualism—rooted in concepts of personal righteousness—toward the collective ethos of social service, Colman contributed to the burgeoning field of historical sociology. The dissertation remains a niche academic text, valued primarily by researchers interested in the evolution of twentieth-century progressive social reforms.