Man and the State, Studies in Applied Sociology: Popular Lectures and Duscussions Before the Brooklyn Ethical AssociationD. Appleton, 1892 - 558 páginas |
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Man and the State, Studies in Applied Sociology: Popular Lectures and ... Brooklyn Ethical Association Visualização integral - 1892 |
Man and the State, Studies in Applied Sociology: Popular Lectures and ... Brooklyn Ethical Association Visualização integral - 1892 |
Man and the State, Studies in Applied Sociology: Popular Lectures and ... Brooklyn Ethical Association Visualização integral - 1892 |
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Página 483 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.
Página 262 - that which passes freely from hand to hand throughout the community in final discharge of debts and full payment for commodities, being accepted equally without reference to the character or credit of the person who offers it and without the intention of the person who receives it to consume it or apply it to any other use than in turn to tender it to others in discharge of debts or payment for commodities.
Página 493 - ... elective it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of excess the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.
Página 527 - This is, that every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old.
Página 295 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects, respectively, from the one country to the other, for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Página 68 - We have been compelled to see what was weak in democracy as well as what was strong. We have begun obscurely to recognize that things do not go of themselves, and that popular government is not in itself a panacea, is no better than any other form except as the virtue and wisdom of the people make it so...
Página 142 - Of the many reasons for restricting the range of governmental actions, the strongest remains to be named. The end which the statesman should keep in view as higher than all other ends, is the formation of character. And if there is entertained a right conception of the character which should be formed, and of the means by which it may be formed, the exclusion of multiplied State-agencies is necessarily implied. " How so ? " will doubtless be the exclamation of many. " Is not the formation of character...