A Century of Revolution: By William Samuel LillyChapman and Hall, Limited, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... ancient Hellenic republics , examined and dissented from . 21 23 Those republics were the first missionaries of freedom in the Western world 25 The political progress of Europe is the gradual vindication of the personal , social , and ...
... ancient Hellenic republics , examined and dissented from . 21 23 Those republics were the first missionaries of freedom in the Western world 25 The political progress of Europe is the gradual vindication of the personal , social , and ...
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... Ancient and medieval democracies were the result of fierce struggles , and of the triumph of the most highly endowed races ; they rested upon a basis of fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ...
... Ancient and medieval democracies were the result of fierce struggles , and of the triumph of the most highly endowed races ; they rested upon a basis of fact , and were , even in their most popular form , essentially aristocratic ...
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... ancient democracies excluded ; the full recognition of their status as persons ; and their direct influence upon public affairs . The advent of the masses , of the numerical majority , to immediate political authority is the social fact ...
... ancient democracies excluded ; the full recognition of their status as persons ; and their direct influence upon public affairs . The advent of the masses , of the numerical majority , to immediate political authority is the social fact ...
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... ancient Hellas - I mean Aristotle . It is worth while to do so , both because his incomparable treatise , based as it is upon a profound knowledge of human nature , is " not of an age , but for all time , " and because of the direct and ...
... ancient Hellas - I mean Aristotle . It is worth while to do so , both because his incomparable treatise , based as it is upon a profound knowledge of human nature , is " not of an age , but for all time , " and because of the direct and ...
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... ancients " ( " les anciens n'ont pas connu la liberté individuelle " ) that " there was nothing in the whole man , as he existed in the Greek republics , which was independent ... ancient Hellenic republics, examined and dissented from.
... ancients " ( " les anciens n'ont pas connu la liberté individuelle " ) that " there was nothing in the whole man , as he existed in the Greek republics , which was independent ... ancient Hellenic republics, examined and dissented from.
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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.
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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.