 | 1874 - 600 pagini
...history shows, is only so learned. In rude places to this day one who says anything new is looked upon with suspicion, and is persecuted by opinion if not...upsetting'; it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded. Naturally, therefore, common men hate... | |
 | 1878 - 818 pagini
...contest. In short, nations grow, progress, thrive, through the Id w of variation from inheritance. " One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea ; " the consolation is, that only in pain does progress get birth, and that the things born are, on... | |
 | George Hawkins Pember - 1884 - 504 pagini
...force, you take that which is almost dearer than life itself. The late Walter Bagehot well remarked : ' One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." No, a wise dispensation would not thus afflict the race. It would work precisely as it is working.... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 pagini
...and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action. Discussion, too, has incentives to progress..."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... | |
 | Samuel Weil - 1893 - 300 pagini
...prepared for receiving new ideas. Men love fixed creeds, not only in theology, but in science likewise. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain..."upsetting;" it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 pagini
...and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action. Discussion, too, has incentives to progress...upsetting ; " it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 pagini
...and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action. Discussion, too, has incentives to progress...upsetting ; " it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1902 - 1258 pagini
...a great deal of trouble, for, as the late Walter Bagehot has said : " One of the greatest jmins of human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as the common people say, 'so upsetting'''. The newcomer is not a peaceable tenant of the mind but makes... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 pagini
...and the ordinary springs of progress, as in a modern community we conceive them, begin their elastic action. Discussion, too, has incentives to progress..."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... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond - 1907 - 524 pagini
...Walter Bagehot says that the pain of a new idea is one of the greatest that man can suffer. " It is, as people say, so upsetting ; it makes you think that,...till now there was no place allotted in your mind to this new and startling inhabitant ; and now that it has conquered an entrance, you do not at once see... | |
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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... 
