Modern Thinkers Principally Upon Social Science: what They Think, and whyBelford, Clarke & Company, 1880 - 384 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Modern Thinkers Principally Upon Social Science: What They Think, and why Van Buren Denslow Visualização integral - 1882 |
Modern Thinkers Principally Upon Social Science: what They Think, and why Van Buren Denslow Visualização integral - 1880 |
Modern Thinkers Principally Upon Social Science: What They Think and why Van Buren Denslow Visualização integral - 1884 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
action Adam Smith America animals Auguste Comte beauty become Bentham cabals called capital causes cells century CHARLES FOURIER Chatham chord Christian complex Comte Comte's consists crime differentiation divine doctrine EMANUEL SWEDENBORG England ERNST HAECKEL essential evolution existence fact force Fourier Greek Haeckel hell Herbert Spencer heterogeneous homogeneous human ideas industry inspiration intellectual Jeremy Bentham Jesus John Horne Tooke judicial labor letters of Junius living logical Lord Lord Chatham Lord George Sackville mankind manufactures Mathematics means ment mind mode moral mysteries myth nature ness never organs original Paine's passion period person phenomena philosophic physical pleasure poetic political economy priests principle production race religion religious result Sackville says scientific sense Sir Philip Francis social society species Spencer stage supposed Swedenborg theological theory Thomas Paine thought tion true truth universal virtue wealth words worship writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 160 - CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Página 159 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 76 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 150 - For, were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which, in every other case, advises him out of two evils to choose the least.
Página 297 - In the final, the positive state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws, — that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance.
Página 149 - Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas, they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness possitively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
Página 149 - Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil...
Página 89 - The labour of the menial servant, on the contrary, does not fix or realize itself in any particular subject or vendible commodity. His services generally perish in the very instant of their performance, and seldom leave any trace or value behind them, for which an equal quantity of service could afterwards be procured.
Página 89 - It is, as it were, a certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up to be employed, if necessary, upon some other occasion. That subject, or, what is the same thing, the price of that subject, can afterwards, if necessary, put into motion a quantity of labour equal to that which had originally produced it.
Página 85 - Some of the best English writers upon commerce set out with observing, that the wealth of a country consists, not in its gold and silver only, but in its lands, houses, and consumable goods, of all different kinds.