Emancipation: An Introduction to the System of Progressive GovernmentKnickerbocker, 1908 - 161 หน้า |
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absolute abstraction action amongst animal Aristotle authority body causes centre chaos CHAPTER citizens civilization cohesion commercial conflict Conscience consists constitute constructed Council cure Democratic desires determinate Purpose determinate Sovereignty duty economic effect efficiency element of power ethical evils evolution exist force guided happiness harmony hence Herbert Spencer Human Nature ideal ideas imitation Indirect Power individual initiate Instinct institution Intellect interests Jurisprudence justice King knowledge Laissez-faire legislative liberty live Lyman Abbott mankind means Medium ment method mind Montesquieu moral Movement multitude nation natural selection Necessity Office office-holders peace perfect Plato political System Popular Government popular Sovereignty prevailing proper proximate causes reason reconstruction regulate remedy represented result rule secure sense social society Sophisme Sovereign special function standard of Right strife system of government tendency thing tion to-day true truth uniform unity vested Virtue Voltaire weighty problem welfare whole Zoroaster
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หน้า 106 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
หน้า 1 - Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of Custom.
หน้า 106 - I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
หน้า 25 - License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that must first be wise and good : But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
หน้า 41 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied...
หน้า 37 - By a State, I mean a complete body of free persons united together for their common benefit, to enjoy peaceably what is their own, and to do justice to others.
หน้า 36 - Nations or States are bodies politic ; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their mutual strength.
หน้า 67 - ... judgment operating upon sound knowledge. Some experience of sea-life leads me to think that I should be very sorry to find myself on board a ship in which the voices of the cook and the loblolly boys counted for as much as those of the officers, upon a question of steering, or reefing topsails ; or where the ' great heart ' of the crew was called upon to settle the ship's course. And there is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good...
หน้า 72 - ... we must believe that these tints are of service to these birds and insects in preserving them from danger. Grouse, if not destroyed at some period of their lives would increase in countless numbers; they are known to suffer largely from birds of prey; and hawks are guided by eyesight to their...