The Philosophy of Progress in Human AffairsChapman & Hall, 1860 - 239 Seiten |
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... Improvements— Conversion of Unskilled Labour into Skilled Labour Relations of Co - operation to Individuality - Social Unity should Spring from Harmony , not Sameness - Progress of Democracy leads either to Despotism or Substitution of ...
... Improvements— Conversion of Unskilled Labour into Skilled Labour Relations of Co - operation to Individuality - Social Unity should Spring from Harmony , not Sameness - Progress of Democracy leads either to Despotism or Substitution of ...
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... Improvements , ' by Dr. Southwood Smith : " There is no typhus fever where there is absolute cleanliness ; but it is in our power to make our towns and villages absolutely clean it is therefore in our power to prevent the existence of ...
... Improvements , ' by Dr. Southwood Smith : " There is no typhus fever where there is absolute cleanliness ; but it is in our power to make our towns and villages absolutely clean it is therefore in our power to prevent the existence of ...
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... improving the framework of society , and raising those of low estate . Conventional use and misuse of the word " right in a variety of senses have given rise to much con- fusion of thought , which can only be avoided by endeavouring to ...
... improving the framework of society , and raising those of low estate . Conventional use and misuse of the word " right in a variety of senses have given rise to much con- fusion of thought , which can only be avoided by endeavouring to ...
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... improving society is manifestly towards doing without rulers , and diminishing law . At present we , in this country , are in a condition of over - legislation ; but no laws are passed that are at variance with public opinion , and as ...
... improving society is manifestly towards doing without rulers , and diminishing law . At present we , in this country , are in a condition of over - legislation ; but no laws are passed that are at variance with public opinion , and as ...
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... improved agriculture . The stables , cow- houses , and pigsties are all immensely improved in connection with improved agriculture . The dwell- ings of the farmers themselves are much more elegant and comfortable than in former times ...
... improved agriculture . The stables , cow- houses , and pigsties are all immensely improved in connection with improved agriculture . The dwell- ings of the farmers themselves are much more elegant and comfortable than in former times ...
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act of Parliament action æsthetic amount arises aristocracy asceticism Aurora Leigh become believe better bothy capitalists cause CHAPTER character circumstances civilized claims condition cracy crime cultivation democracy despotism directions diseases doctrine duty equally evil exercise exhibited exist fact faculties favourable feeling force freedom growth Guizot habits human mind idea improved individual industrial influence inquiry intellectual J. S. Mill knowledge labour laws legislation liberty live man's marriage mass means ment mental metaphysical metaphysical stage method modern modes moral nation natural object observation obtain occupation operation opinion persons phenomena philosophical physical political economy portion position present principles produced progress proportion question racter reason relations religious result rule sanitary science scholasticism scientific social science Social statics society spirit stage strikes suffer supposed tendency theology thing thought tion trade true truth universal suffrage variety woman women
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Seite 87 - That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Seite 109 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Seite 74 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.
Seite 157 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears: "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Seite 4 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Seite 238 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Seite 165 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Seite 47 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after Absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Seite 22 - Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Seite 46 - ... who had merely adopted the commonplaces of received opinion, that he did not understand the subject — that he as yet attached no definite meaning to the doctrines he professed ; in order that, becoming aware of his ignorance, he might be put in the way to attain a stable belief, resting on a clear apprehension both of the meaning of doctrines and of their evidence.