Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyD. Appleton, 1906 - 228 pagini |
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... Better motives- better impulses , rather - come from a good body : worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body . A Freewillist may admit as much as a Necessarian that such improved conditions tend to improve human action , and ...
... Better motives- better impulses , rather - come from a good body : worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body . A Freewillist may admit as much as a Necessarian that such improved conditions tend to improve human action , and ...
Pagina 16
... better , than civilised man . The South American uses the horse which the European brought better than the European . Many races use the rifle the especial and very complicated weapon of civilised inan - better , upon an average , than ...
... better , than civilised man . The South American uses the horse which the European brought better than the European . Many races use the rifle the especial and very complicated weapon of civilised inan - better , upon an average , than ...
Pagina 17
... better creatures , such as that by which they are now perishing . We catch then a first glimpse of patriarchal man , not with any industrial relics of a primitive civilisation , but with some gradually learnt knowledge of the simpler ...
... better creatures , such as that by which they are now perishing . We catch then a first glimpse of patriarchal man , not with any industrial relics of a primitive civilisation , but with some gradually learnt knowledge of the simpler ...
Pagina 18
... better than any other . Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and ...
... better than any other . Civilisation has indeed already gone forward ages beyond the time at which any such description is com- plete . Man , in Homer , is as good at oratory , Mr. Glad- stone seems to say , as he has ever been , and ...
Pagina 24
... 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 being singular that ...
... 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 being singular that ...
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action ALEXANDER BAIN ancient animals argument Aryan race Athens Australian battle of nations beginning believe better causes civilisation co-operative groups common conquered custom customary descendants despotism doctrine doubt early society effect ÉMILE VANDERVELDE 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 man-the mankind manner ment military mind modern moral national character natural selection never origin peculiar perhaps philosophers physical plain political possessed pre-historic present savages primitive principle probably Professor progress race racter reason reflex action religion Romans 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 "upsetting"; it makes you think that after all your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded ; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to the new and startling inhabitant, and now that it has conquered an entrance you do not at once see which of your old ideas it will or will not turn out, with which...
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 22 - Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series of groups out of which the State was at first constituted. The Family, House, and Tribe of the Romans may be taken as the type of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point.
Pagina 210 - In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted by great public calamities and by bad institutions, to carry civilisation rapidly forward.
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.
Pagina 1 - ONE peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A new world of inventions — of railways and of telegraphs — has grown up around us which we cannot help seeing; a new world of ideas is in the air and affects us, though we do not see it.