| 1857 - 852 Seiten
...we must consider this progress as a very doubtful point ; and the progress which is now treated of resolves itself, not into a progress of natural capacity, but into a progress, so to say, of opportunity ; that is, " an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity,... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 Seiten
...as physiological ones, and therefore our conclusions respecting them are even more precarious. gress of men may be, it resolves itself not into a progress of natural capacity,13 but into a progress, if I may so say, of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 722 Seiten
...discovered ; and we ought to inquire not only how many instances there arc of hereditary tálente, &c., Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress...it resolves itself not into a progress of natural capacity,13 but into a progress, if I may so say, of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 752 Seiten
...discovered ; and we ought to inquire not only how many instance« there are of hereditary talents, &c., Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress...it resolves itself not into a progress of natural capacity,13 but into a progress, if I may so say, of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances... | |
| 1859 - 806 Seiten
...meaning is most clearly, as always, set forth in the following paragraph and its contexts : — Whatever the moral and intellectual progress of men may be,...of natural capacity, but into a progress, if I may say so, of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity after... | |
| 1861 - 520 Seiten
...disease. (Vol. I. p. 128, note,.) He does not believe in any progress of natural capacity in man, but only of opportunity, " that is, an improvement in the circumstances...capacity after birth comes into play." " Here then is the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power, but of external advantage."... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 Seiten
...as physiological ones, and therefore our conclusions respecting them Are even more precarious. gress of men may be, it resolves itself not into a progress of natural capacity,13 but into a progress, if I may so say, of opportunity; that is, an improvement in the circumstances... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1866 - 726 Seiten
...into a progress of natural capacity,13 but into a progress^ if I may so say, of opportunity ; M¡hat is, an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity after birth comes into play.J> Here, then, lies the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power,... | |
| Robert Brough Smyth - 1878 - 492 Seiten
...in the most civilized part of Europe than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country. Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress...progress of natural capacity, but into a progress of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity, after birth,... | |
| 1878 - 490 Seiten
...in the most civilized part of Europe than in one born in the wildest region of a barbarous country. Whatever, therefore, the moral and intellectual progress...progress of natural capacity, but into a progress of opportunity ; that is, an improvement in the circumstances under which that capacity, after birth,... | |
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