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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... sure I could not write it ; but I think I may usefully , in a few papers , show how , upon one or two great points , the new ideas are modifying two old sciences - politics and political economy . Even upon these points my ideas must be ...
... sure I could not write it ; but I think I may usefully , in a few papers , show how , upon one or two great points , the new ideas are modifying two old sciences - politics and political economy . Even upon these points my ideas must be ...
Pagina 3
... sure to state it rightly and vividly , and because as I am about to apply these principles to subjects which are my own pursuit - I would rather have it quite clear that I have not made my premises to suit my own conclusions . - 1st ...
... sure to state it rightly and vividly , and because as I am about to apply these principles to subjects which are my own pursuit - I would rather have it quite clear that I have not made my premises to suit my own conclusions . - 1st ...
Pagina 15
... sure result of that science , that it has dispelled the dreams of other days as to a primitive high civilisation . History catches man as he emerges from the patriarchal state : ethnology shows how he lived , grew , and improved in that ...
... sure result of that science , that it has dispelled the dreams of other days as to a primitive high civilisation . History catches man as he emerges from the patriarchal state : ethnology shows how he lived , grew , and improved in that ...
Pagina 24
... sure to have the better of a set of families acknowledging no obedience to any- one , but scattering loose about the world and fighting where they stood . Homer's Cyclops would be powerless against the feeblest band ; so far from its ...
... sure to have the better of a set of families acknowledging no obedience to any- one , but scattering loose about the world and fighting where they stood . Homer's Cyclops would be powerless against the feeblest band ; so far from its ...
Pagina 31
... 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 can alone be altered , if they can be ...
... 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 can alone be altered , if they can be ...
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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
Pasaje populare
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.