The Foundations of the Modern CommonwealthHarper & Brothers, 1923 - 491 páginas |
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Arthur Norman Holcombe. " How are we to secure the best direction of human affairs and the maximum of willing co- operation with that direction ? This is ultimately a complex prob- lem in psychology , but it is absurd to pretend that it ...
Arthur Norman Holcombe. " How are we to secure the best direction of human affairs and the maximum of willing co- operation with that direction ? This is ultimately a complex prob- lem in psychology , but it is absurd to pretend that it ...
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... human affairs with a philosophical eye , " wrote a British philosopher of the eighteenth century , " than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few . " However surprising this observation may have been to thinking men ...
... human affairs with a philosophical eye , " wrote a British philosopher of the eighteenth century , " than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few . " However surprising this observation may have been to thinking men ...
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... human affairs with a philo- Contem- sophical eye can suppose that " men resign their own political sentiments and passions to those of their rulers , " whatever restlessness be the actual number of the latter , with " implicit sub ...
... human affairs with a philo- Contem- sophical eye can suppose that " men resign their own political sentiments and passions to those of their rulers , " whatever restlessness be the actual number of the latter , with " implicit sub ...
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... humanity the world has ever seen under a single government . 1 1 James Bryce , Relations of Political Science to History and Practice , " American Political Science Review , Vol . III , p . 18 . Why do the many obey the few ? Hume's ...
... humanity the world has ever seen under a single government . 1 1 James Bryce , Relations of Political Science to History and Practice , " American Political Science Review , Vol . III , p . 18 . Why do the many obey the few ? Hume's ...
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... human action he could not retain the power which Washington rather than the people entrusted to him . The politician cannot live by " realism " alone . He must also be something of an " idealist , " if he is to retain power in a state ...
... human action he could not retain the power which Washington rather than the people entrusted to him . The politician cannot live by " realism " alone . He must also be something of an " idealist , " if he is to retain power in a state ...
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Página 173 - The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Página 209 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Página 23 - Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Página 390 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Página 378 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst, in a free and open encounter?
Página 223 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Página 395 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
Página 175 - The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Página 205 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that• all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 406 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.