A Century of Revolution: By William Samuel LillyChapman and Hall, Limited, 1889 - 235 Seiten |
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... society is an artificial state resting upon a contract between those sovereign units , whereby the native independence of each is sur- rendered , and an absolute power over each is vested in the body politic ; that human nature is good ...
... society is an artificial state resting upon a contract between those sovereign units , whereby the native independence of each is sur- rendered , and an absolute power over each is vested in the body politic ; that human nature is good ...
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... society by its growth in freedom we measure it by the increasing liberation of the powers of all men , equally , for a common good " How far has the Revolution vindicated such freedom ? Its work has been almost entirely negative ; it ...
... society by its growth in freedom we measure it by the increasing liberation of the powers of all men , equally , for a common good " How far has the Revolution vindicated such freedom ? Its work has been almost entirely negative ; it ...
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... society , the family is its foundation 91 The family , as it exists in Europe , is mainly the creation of Christianity 92 And rests upon the ascetic teaching of Christianity con- cerning the virtue of purity . 93 The new gospel brands ...
... society , the family is its foundation 91 The family , as it exists in Europe , is mainly the creation of Christianity 92 And rests upon the ascetic teaching of Christianity con- cerning the virtue of purity . 93 The new gospel brands ...
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... society , is demonstrably , is obviously , false 1 169 171 Bishop Butler's question , whether nations can go mad , is answered by a Century of Revolution . A nation given over to the strong delusion to believe the Revolutionary dogma ...
... society , is demonstrably , is obviously , false 1 169 171 Bishop Butler's question , whether nations can go mad , is answered by a Century of Revolution . A nation given over to the strong delusion to believe the Revolutionary dogma ...
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... society : which has no sense of any law superior to popular wilfulness , and which is condemned already , simply by the very fact that it is anarchic PAGE 181 182 183 184 PAGE And there is the German type of Democracy ,
... society : which has no sense of any law superior to popular wilfulness , and which is condemned already , simply by the very fact that it is anarchic PAGE 181 182 183 184 PAGE And there is the German type of Democracy ,
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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.