Oracles on Man and GovernmentMacmillan and Company, limited, 1923 - 298 Seiten |
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... classes ; not only the class that will hear nothing said hostile to the greater social conventions , including among these the popular theology , but also another class who will tolerate or even encourage attack on the greater social ...
... classes ; not only the class that will hear nothing said hostile to the greater social conventions , including among these the popular theology , but also another class who will tolerate or even encourage attack on the greater social ...
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... class . Finally , in its broadest , deepest , most com- prehensive , and most interesting sense , Democracy is the name for a certain general condition of society , having historic origins , springing from circumstances and the nature ...
... class . Finally , in its broadest , deepest , most com- prehensive , and most interesting sense , Democracy is the name for a certain general condition of society , having historic origins , springing from circumstances and the nature ...
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... disintegrated Parliaments and ignorant constituencies . Power has descended to classes who are less intelligent , less scrupulous , more easily deceived . Low motives are acquiring a greater prominence 40 LECKY ON DEMOCRACY .
... disintegrated Parliaments and ignorant constituencies . Power has descended to classes who are less intelligent , less scrupulous , more easily deceived . Low motives are acquiring a greater prominence 40 LECKY ON DEMOCRACY .
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... class or party passions ' ? The blessed events of one blithe summer week have happily transformed this mass of ignorant and passionate dupes into a deep and silent sea of innate conservat- ism and real attachment to the institutions of ...
... class or party passions ' ? The blessed events of one blithe summer week have happily transformed this mass of ignorant and passionate dupes into a deep and silent sea of innate conservat- ism and real attachment to the institutions of ...
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... class to make sacrifices of principle and character to win the prize , to be more governed by the desire for office or social distinction . The young patrician is less accessible than poorer men to ' the sordid motives that play so ...
... class to make sacrifices of principle and character to win the prize , to be more governed by the desire for office or social distinction . The young patrician is less accessible than poorer men to ' the sordid motives that play so ...
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Seite 23 - All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, many of them almost entirely, conquerable by human care and effort; and though their removal is grievously slow— though a long succession of generations will perish in the breach before the conquest is completed, and this world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were not wanting, it might easily be...
Seite 11 - The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, of which the origin is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its own all-sufficient voucher and justification....
Seite 275 - The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, — each branch of our knowledge, — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.
Seite 207 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Seite 4 - He would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but he never spoke with anything like enthusiasm even of that possibility.
Seite 160 - I cannot build a house for my ideas," said he: "I have tried to do without words, and words take their revenge on me by their difficulty." "If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself.
Seite 6 - In an improving state of the human mind, the influences are constantly on the increase, which tend to generate in each individual a feeling of unity with all the rest ; which feeling, if perfect, would make him never think of, or desire, any beneficial condition for himself, in the benefits of which they are not included.
Seite 242 - He was incapable of fear, meeting personal dangers with the calmest unconcern. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, what1 ever obstacles opposed.
Seite 58 - That in the opinion of this House it is the duty of the Government in all Government contracts to make provision against the evils recently disclosed before the Sweating Committee, to insert such conditions as may prevent the abuse arising from sub-letting, and to make every effort to secure the payment of such wages as are generally accepted as current in each trade for competent workmen.
Seite 4 - My father's moral inculcations were at all times mainly those of the " Socratici viri;" justice, temperance (to which he gave a very extended application), veracity, perseverance, readiness to encounter pain and especially labour; regard for the public good; estimation of persons according to their merits, and of things according to their intrinsic usefulness; a life of exertion in contradiction to one of selfindulgent ease and sloth.