The Foundations of the Modern CommonwealthHarper & Brothers, 1923 - 491 páginas |
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... practical politician of making due allowances philoso- for its vagaries as well as for its normal manifestations . The two political philosophers whose insight is keenest are Machiavelli and Aristotle . The former has been a much abused ...
... practical politician of making due allowances philoso- for its vagaries as well as for its normal manifestations . The two political philosophers whose insight is keenest are Machiavelli and Aristotle . The former has been a much abused ...
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... practical " men must also condemn , if these methods be judged by the standards of our own time . In his earlier and happier days he was a republican , and his best work is not the famous treatise entitled , The Prince , but his ...
... practical " men must also condemn , if these methods be judged by the standards of our own time . In his earlier and happier days he was a republican , and his best work is not the famous treatise entitled , The Prince , but his ...
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... practical purposes . " The average man thus becomes what has been elsewhere termed the normal man . By thinking in terms of the average or normal man it is The opinions of possible perhaps to disregard the opinions of the upper and ...
... practical purposes . " The average man thus becomes what has been elsewhere termed the normal man . By thinking in terms of the average or normal man it is The opinions of possible perhaps to disregard the opinions of the upper and ...
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... practical purposes it is probably enough to preserve the identity of a state that the bulk of its people should be the same before and after the change . Changes of rulers are of less conse- quence in determining the identity of a state ...
... practical purposes it is probably enough to preserve the identity of a state that the bulk of its people should be the same before and after the change . Changes of rulers are of less conse- quence in determining the identity of a state ...
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... Practical This is most clearly evident in matters of religion . limitations upon legal Christians have their Gospels , Mohammedans their Koran , sovereignty and adherents of other creeds their sacred writings , by which they seek to ...
... Practical This is most clearly evident in matters of religion . limitations upon legal Christians have their Gospels , Mohammedans their Koran , sovereignty and adherents of other creeds their sacred writings , by which they seek to ...
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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.