 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1905 - 690 pagini
...authority; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...authority, the dignity, the utility of history. If wo may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or reputation, we may debase it for... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 564 pagini
...Carlyle, become teachers of morality and honest men. Quite frankly, I think there is no greater error. The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party,... | |
 | John Stockton Littell - 1910 - 326 pagini
...of Henry VIII, Vol. II, p. 104. " Acton : Historical Essays and Studies, pp. 504-506, as follows : "The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utillty of History." "The moral code, in its main llnes, is not new, it has long been known. it is... | |
 | 1919 - 666 pagini
...increasing as the power increases. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the authority, the dignity, the utility of history." The activities of states are in Acton's view equally bound by the demands of morality.. He saw clearly... | |
 | 1919 - 540 pagini
...increasing as the power increases. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. . . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is to me...the authority, the dignity, the utility of history." The activities of states are in Acton's view equally bound by the demands of morality. He saw clearly... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1925 - 184 pagini
...Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still higher for the sake of historical science. "... The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. "Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1925 - 160 pagini
...Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice, still higher for the sake of historical science. ". . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. "Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but... | |
 | William K. Muir - 1979 - 324 pagini
...reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science.. . . The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's influence, of his religion, of his party,... | |
 | F. A. Hayek - 1992 - 291 pagini
...negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival.19 And he concludes: "The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of history."20 My illustrations of Acton's political philosophy must be even more unsystematic and incomplete,... | |
 | F. A. Hayek - 1992 - 291 pagini
...negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival. 19 And he concludes: "The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to...the authority, the dignity, the utility of history." 20 My illustrations of Acton's political philosophy must be even more unsystematic and incomplete,... | |
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The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. If we may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man's... 
