Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyD. Appleton, 1904 - 228 pagini |
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... character is the greatest commonplace in the world ; that when a philosopher cannot account for any- thing in any other manner , he boldly ascribes it to an oc- cult quality in some race . But what physical science does is , not to ...
... character is the greatest commonplace in the world ; that when a philosopher cannot account for any- thing in any other manner , he boldly ascribes it to an oc- cult quality in some race . But what physical science does is , not to ...
Pagina 14
... character , are equally divided at his death among his descendants in the first degree , the eldest son sometimes receiving a double share under the name of birthright , but more generally endowed with no hereditary advantage beyond an ...
... character , are equally divided at his death among his descendants in the first degree , the eldest son sometimes receiving a double share under the name of birthright , but more generally endowed with no hereditary advantage beyond an ...
Pagina 18
... character of childhood with the passions and strength of men . ' And if we open the first record of the pagan world - the poems of Homer - how much do we find that suits this description better than any other . Civilisation has indeed ...
... character of childhood with the passions and strength of men . ' And if we open the first record of the pagan world - the poems of Homer - how much do we find that suits this description better than any other . Civilisation has indeed ...
Pagina 31
... character . We cannot yet explain - I am sure , at least , I cannot at- tempt to explain - all the singular phenomena of national character : how completely and perfectly they seem to be at first framed ; how slowly , how gradually they ...
... character . We cannot yet explain - I am sure , at least , I cannot at- tempt to explain - all the singular phenomena of national character : how completely and perfectly they seem to be at first framed ; how slowly , how gradually they ...
Pagina 36
... characters are being made in our own time . In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo - Saxonism is growing . A sort of type of character arose from the difficulties of colonial life - the difficulty of ...
... characters are being made in our own time . In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo - Saxonism is growing . A sort of type of character arose from the difficulties of colonial life - the difficulty of ...
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action ALEXANDER BAIN ancient animals argument Aryan race Athens Australian battle of nations beginning believe better Carthage causes civilisation co-operative groups common conquered custom customary descendants despotism doctrine doubt early society effect English evil existence explain fact feeling fixed force government by discussion greater Greek habit Herodotus human nature idea Illustrations imagine imitation improvement inherited instincts intellectual killed lative least less living luck mankind manner mediæval ment military mind modern moral national character natural selection never oligarchies original peculiar perhaps philosophers physical plain political possessed pre-historic present savages primitive principle probably Professor progress race racter reason reflex action religion Roman rule seems SHELDON AMOS Sir Henry Maine Sir John Lubbock sort speak superstitions sure tend tendency theory things thought Thucydides tion trace tribe usage virtues whole write yoke
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Pagina 163 - One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as common people say, so
Pagina 22 - The elementary group is the family, connected by common subjection to the highest male ascendant; the aggregation of families forms the gens or house; the aggregation of houses makes the tribe; the aggregation of tribes constitutes the commonwealth.
Pagina 57 - ... strict dilemma of early society. Either men had no law at all, and lived in confused tribes, hardly hanging together, or they had to obtain a fixed law by processes of incredible difficulty. Those who surmounted that difficulty soon destroyed all those that lay in their way who did not. And then they themselves were caught in their own yoke. The customary discipline, which could only be imposed on any early men by terrible sanctions, continued with those sanctions, and killed out of the whole...
Pagina 14 - The flocks and herds of the children are the flocks and herds of the father, and the possessions of the parent, which he holds In a representative rather than in a proprietary character, are equally divided at his death among his descendants in the first degree, the eldest son sometimes receiving a double share under the name of birthright, but more generally endowed with no hereditary advantage beyond an honorary precedence.
Pagina 23 - The history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood is the sole possible ground of community in political functions; nor is there any of those subversions of feeling, which we term emphatically revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when some other principle — such as that, for instance, of local contiguity — establishes itself for the first time as the basis of common political action.
Pagina 53 - The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom ; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.