A Century of RevolutionChapman and Hall, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... facts of Darwinism as apart from the speculations founded on it ? It does not appear to be open to doubt that the law of natural selection , as Mr. Darwin has stated it , largely explains the progress of descent ; or that the struggle ...
... facts of Darwinism as apart from the speculations founded on it ? It does not appear to be open to doubt that the law of natural selection , as Mr. Darwin has stated it , largely explains the progress of descent ; or that the struggle ...
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... facts are among the assured conquests of the modern mind But these facts are fatal to the fundamental propositions of the Revolutionary dogma ; to its doctrine of the natural , inalienable , and imprescriptible rights of the individual ...
... facts are among the assured conquests of the modern mind But these facts are fatal to the fundamental propositions of the Revolutionary dogma ; to its doctrine of the natural , inalienable , and imprescriptible rights of the individual ...
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... facts point to , and harmonise with , a psychic basis of life and Directive Intelligence Thus the whole universe is transfigured before us , and we catch some glimpse of its real meaning . The supreme law which rules through it , is a ...
... facts point to , and harmonise with , a psychic basis of life and Directive Intelligence Thus the whole universe is transfigured before us , and we catch some glimpse of its real meaning . The supreme law which rules through it , is a ...
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... fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ; citizenship in them being regarded not as a natural right but as a hardly won privilege • The Revolutionary Democracy of the present day , on the other hand ...
... fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ; citizenship in them being regarded not as a natural right but as a hardly won privilege • The Revolutionary Democracy of the present day , on the other hand ...
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... fact called Modern Democracy is one thing . The Revolutionary dogma is another . There is no necessary connection between them . In truth , the work of the Revolution for Modern Democracy has been chiefly to pervert and falsify it , and ...
... fact called Modern Democracy is one thing . The Revolutionary dogma is another . There is no necessary connection between them . In truth , the work of the Revolution for Modern Democracy has been chiefly to pervert and falsify it , and ...
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Seite 42 - When we speak of freedom as something to be so highly prized, we mean a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something that we do or enjoy in common with others.
Seite 201 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands,* That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish ; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old : We must be free or die, who speak...
Seite 106 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the old world.
Seite 107 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larvae of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Seite 179 - Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Seite 234 - BAYARD' : ° HISTORY OF THE GOOD CHEVALIER, SANS PEUR ET SANS REPROCHE. Compiled by the LOYAL SERVITEUR; translated into English from the French of Loredan Larchey. With over aoo...
Seite 124 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
Seite 195 - ... a social support, a point d'appui, for individual resistance to the tendencies of the ruling power ; a protection, a rallying point, for opinions and interests which the ascendant public opinion views with disfavour.
Seite 21 - WORSAAE (JJA)— INDUSTRIAL ARTS OF DENMARK, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DANISH CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.
Seite 70 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.