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... spirit is owing to the same cause Illustrations from Russia and Turkey 137-139 140-141 • 142 143-144 As civilization advances , men of intellect avoid becoming soldiers Illustrations of this from ancient Greece and modern Europe The ...
... spirit is owing to the same cause Illustrations from Russia and Turkey 137-139 140-141 • 142 143-144 As civilization advances , men of intellect avoid becoming soldiers Illustrations of this from ancient Greece and modern Europe The ...
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... spirit of doubt was a necessary precursor of improvement Hence the supreme importance of scepticism . Origin of religious toleration in England . Hooker contrasted with Jewel PAGE 241 242 243-244 244 248-249 Scepticism and spirit of ...
... spirit of doubt was a necessary precursor of improvement Hence the supreme importance of scepticism . Origin of religious toleration in England . Hooker contrasted with Jewel PAGE 241 242 243-244 244 248-249 Scepticism and spirit of ...
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... spirit prevented the French from becoming free . . 438-439 CHAPTER IX . HISTORY OF THE PROTECTIVE SPIRIT , AND COMPARISON OF IT IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND . About the eleventh century the spirit of inquiry began to weaken the church 440-441 ...
... spirit prevented the French from becoming free . . 438-439 CHAPTER IX . HISTORY OF THE PROTECTIVE SPIRIT , AND COMPARISON OF IT IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND . About the eleventh century the spirit of inquiry began to weaken the church 440-441 ...
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... spirit of popular independence unknown in France , where the nobles were too powerful to need the help of the people Effects of this difference between the two countries in the fourteenth century Centralization was in France the natural ...
... spirit of popular independence unknown in France , where the nobles were too powerful to need the help of the people Effects of this difference between the two countries in the fourteenth century Centralization was in France the natural ...
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Henry Thomas Buckle. that stationary and conservative spirit , which , as we shall here- after see , has marked every country in which the upper classes have monopolized power . The religious symptom of the same spirit was displayed in ...
Henry Thomas Buckle. that stationary and conservative spirit , which , as we shall here- after see , has marked every country in which the upper classes have monopolized power . The religious symptom of the same spirit was displayed in ...
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Page 174 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 594 - Il ya des causes générales, soit morales, soit physiques, qui agissent dans chaque monarchie, l'élèvent, la maintiennent, ou la précipitent; tous les accidents sont soumis à ces causes; et, si le hasard d'une bataille, c'està-dire une cause particulière, a ruiné un État, il y avait une cause générale qui faisait que cet État devait périr par une seule bataille. En un mot, l'allure principale entraîne avec elle tous les accidents particuliers.
Page 20 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are subordinate.
Page 335 - The storm has gone over me; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth!
Page 622 - Si la nature, au lieu de mains et de doigts flexibles, eût terminé nos poignets par un pied de cheval, qui doute que les hommes sans arts, sans habitations, sans défense contre les animaux, tout occupés du soin de pourvoir à leur nourriture et d'éviter les bêtes féroces, ne fussent encore errants dans les forêts comme des troupeaux fugitifs (i)?
Page 329 - In effect, to follow not to force the public inclination, to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Page 128 - Here, then, lies the gist of the whole matter. The progress is one, not of internal power, but of external advantage. The child born in a civilized land, is not likely, as such, to be superior to one born among barbarians ; and the difference which ensues between the acts of the two children will be caused, so far as we know, .solely by the pressure of external circumstances ; by which I mean the surrounding opinions, knowledge, associations, in a word, the entire mental atmosphere in which the two...
Page 333 - ... necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us: because, after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our own imaginations...
Page 129 - For there is, unquestionably, nothing to be found in the world which has undergone so little change as those great dogmas of which moral systems are composed. To do good to others; to sacrifice for their benefit your own wishes ; to love your neighbor as yourself; to forgive your enemies; to restrain your passions; to honor your parents; to respect those who are set over you ; these, and a few others, are the sole essentials of morals; but they have been known for thousands of years...
Page 247 - Religion; it were unnatural not to think the Pastors and Bishops of our souls a great deal more fit, than men of secular trades and callings: howbeit, when all which the wisdom of all sorts can do is done for the devising of Laws in the Church, it is the general consent of all that giveth them the form and vigour of Laws, without which they could be no more unto us than the counsels of Physicians to the sick...