 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pagini
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pagini
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 850 pagini
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pagini
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pagini
...forget that the country of wliich we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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 hare often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1874 - 742 pagini
...(Tauchnitz, vol. 1., cap. iii. i. when he is considering the gradual development of civilisation : — "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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - 738 pagini
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 598 pagini
...forget that the country of which we read was a very different country /from that in which we live. v^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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pagini
...we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental sciencejhere is a tendency. towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to amelfbrate~Kis own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 272 pagini
...hard problems. This is the maxim of scientific humility so often insisted on by the highest inquirers that, in investigations, as in life, those " who exalt...that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Every one that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable... | |
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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,... 
