 | 1901 - 604 pages
...as the first step toward bettering their condition. But when he had convinced himself, as he said, that no great improvements in the lot of mankind are...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought, he had still to persuade men who were stirring and pressing for immediate action that gradual methods... | |
 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are the result I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." (Autobiography, pp. 238, 289.) And Mr. Greg thoroughly sympathises in the same view : " In truth, those... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economists - 1873 - 344 pages
...errors, the general discipline of their minds, intellectually and morally, is not altered. I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals, and politics, are so much discredited in the more intellectual... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1881 - 608 pages
...John Stuart Mill makes the following remarks on the arrival of a new era of thought : l " I am no w convinced that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals, and politics are so much discredited in the more intellectual... | |
 | Church congress - 1887 - 496 pages
...employers." And again later on, " 1 am now convinced that no great improvement in the lot of mankind is possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." It was thus that he bore testimony to an old truth, " Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man... | |
 | John Trevor - Labor - 1897 - 332 pages
...expressed exactly my own feelings in deciding to be a minister. — ' I am now convinced,' he says, ' that no great improvements in the lot of mankind are...until a great change takes place in the fundamental principles of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals and politics are so much... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1901 - 626 pages
...equally melancholy confession to make, and a most hopeless message to send us. He said : — " I am now convinced that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals, and politics are so much discredited in the more intellectual... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - English literature - 1907 - 354 pages
...propagating the doctrines of Bentham and his father, " that no great improvement in the lot of mankind is possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." Mill came to the conclusion that the great obstacle to progress in all directions \vas the popularity... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 pages
...errors, the general discipline of their minds, intellectually and morally, is not altered. I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals, and politics, are so much discredited in the more intellectual... | |
 | Charles Kendall Franklin - Science - 1910 - 88 pages
...VIII. THE LAW OF REPETITION . . 54 IX. NATURAL SELECTION ... 61 X. SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM . 68 I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of...fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. The old opinions in religion, morals and politics, are so much discredited in the more intellectual... | |
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I am now convinced, that no great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. 
