Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 pagini |
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Pagina 11
... habit ; it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end ; it is the silent toil of the first generation that becomes the transmitted aptitude of the next . Here physical causes do not create the ...
... habit ; it is the continual effort of the beginning that creates the hoarded energy of the end ; it is the silent toil of the first generation that becomes the transmitted aptitude of the next . Here physical causes do not create the ...
Pagina 19
... habit of steady but varied anticipation , which makes our minds what they are , must have been wholly foreign to theirs . Again , I at least cannot call up to myself the loose conceptions ( as they must have been ) of morals which then ...
... habit of steady but varied anticipation , which makes our minds what they are , must have been wholly foreign to theirs . Again , I at least cannot call up to myself the loose conceptions ( as they must have been ) of morals which then ...
Pagina 53
... habit , but of breaking through it , and reaching something better . This is the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilisations . A large part , a very large part , of the world seems to be ready to advance to something ...
... habit , but of breaking through it , and reaching something better . This is the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilisations . A large part , a very large part , of the world seems to be ready to advance to something ...
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... habit of obedience , coercive as use and wont at first seem , a hidden impulse of extri- cation did manage , in some queer way , to change the substance while conforming to the accidents - to do what was wanted for the new time while ...
... habit of obedience , coercive as use and wont at first seem , a hidden impulse of extri- cation did manage , in some queer way , to change the substance while conforming to the accidents - to do what was wanted for the new time while ...
Pagina 74
... gain . War both needs and generates certain virtues ; not the highest , but what may be called the preliminary virtues , as valour , veracity , the spirit of obedience , the habit of discipline . Any of these 74 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
... gain . War both needs and generates certain virtues ; not the highest , but what may be called the preliminary virtues , as valour , veracity , the spirit of obedience , the habit of discipline . Any of these 74 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
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