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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... least , tell part of its tale ; and the answers would have been meaningless if physiology and conchology and a hun- dred similar sciences had not brought their aid . Such subsidiary sciences are to the decipherer of the present day what ...
... least , tell part of its tale ; and the answers would have been meaningless if physiology and conchology and a hun- dred similar sciences had not brought their aid . Such subsidiary sciences are to the decipherer of the present day what ...
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... least cannot call up to myself the loose conceptions ( as they must have been ) of morals which then existed . If we set aside all the element derived from law and polity which runs through our current moral notions , I hardly know what ...
... least cannot call up to myself the loose conceptions ( as they must have been ) of morals which then existed . If we set aside all the element derived from law and polity which runs through our current moral notions , I hardly know what ...
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... least to be found in the wild spasms of ' wild justice , ' half punishment , half outrage , —but anyhow , being unfixed by steady law , it was inter- mittent , vague , and hard for us to imagine . Everybody who has studied mathematics ...
... least to be found in the wild spasms of ' wild justice , ' half punishment , half outrage , —but anyhow , being unfixed by steady law , it was inter- mittent , vague , and hard for us to imagine . Everybody who has studied mathematics ...
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... least be certain , that all ancient societies re- garded themselves as having proceeded from one original stock , and even laboured under an incapacity for com- prehending any reason except this for their holding together in political ...
... least be certain , that all ancient societies re- garded themselves as having proceeded from one original stock , and even laboured under an incapacity for com- prehending any reason except this for their holding together in political ...
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... least to us instructed moderns who know her and have been taught by her . But to the ' Philistines ' of those days Athens was of a lower order . She was beaten ; she lost the great visible game which is all that short - sighted ...
... least to us instructed moderns who know her and have been taught by her . But to the ' Philistines ' of those days Athens was of a lower order . She was beaten ; she lost the great visible game which is all that short - sighted ...
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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.