A Century of Revolution: By William Samuel Lilly

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Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1889 - 235 Seiten
 

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Seite 48 - Revolution has endowed every adult French male with an infinitesimal fraction of political authority, represented by the right to deposit a voting paper in the electoral urn. But how far has it conferred upon him a positive power or capacity of doing or enjoying something worth doing or enjoying, and that, too, something which
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Seite 207 - It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which, to the open sea Of the world's praise, from dark antiquity Hath flowed, ' with pomp of waters umvithstood,
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Seite 130 - equally part of the grand sequence of events which the mind refuses to accept as the result of blind chance. The understanding, revolts at such a conclusion." Yes. But it revolts, too, at the ineptitudes of defenders of the faith who know not how to employ the language of science and of reason:
Seite 55 - Le serment prescrit par les articles 21 et 38 de la constitution civile, ' d'être fidèles à la loi et au Roi, et de maintenir de tout son pouvoir la constitution décrétée par l'Assemblée nationale et
Seite 200 - The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is toward collective mediocrity; and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.
Seite 9 - FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.—First Series, May, 1865, to Dec. 1866. 6 vols. Cloth, 135. each. New Series, 1867 to 1872. In Half-yearly Volumes. Cloth, 135. each. From January, 1873, to the present time, in Half-yearly Volumes. Cloth, i6s. each. CONTENTS OF FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. From the commencement to end of 1878. Sewed, as. B 2
Seite 37 - Freedom, in all the forms of doing what one will with one's own, is valuable only as a means to an end. That end is what I call freedom in the positive sense : in other words, the liberation of the powers of all men, equally, for contributions to a common good.

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