Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... Assuming it to be in other respects satisfactory , a rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have a definite mean- ing . The terms used must be universally accepted in the same ...
... Assuming it to be in other respects satisfactory , a rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have a definite mean- ing . The terms used must be universally accepted in the same ...
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... assume , as a matter of course , that content is . They think it the chief essential to well - being . There are others , however , who hold that but for discontent we should have been still savages . It is in their eyes the greatest ...
... assume , as a matter of course , that content is . They think it the chief essential to well - being . There are others , however , who hold that but for discontent we should have been still savages . It is in their eyes the greatest ...
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... , holding up to view the great desideratum , it assumes that after an inspection of the aggregate phenomena of national life , governments ars SUPERFICIAL CONCEPTION OF THE PROBLEM . 23 qualified to concoct 22 INTRODUCTION .
... , holding up to view the great desideratum , it assumes that after an inspection of the aggregate phenomena of national life , governments ars SUPERFICIAL CONCEPTION OF THE PROBLEM . 23 qualified to concoct 22 INTRODUCTION .
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... assume that government must necessarily last forever . The institu- tion marks a certain stage of civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human development . It is not essen- tial but incidental . As amongst the Bushmen we ...
... assume that government must necessarily last forever . The institu- tion marks a certain stage of civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human development . It is not essen- tial but incidental . As amongst the Bushmen we ...
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... assumed permanence , selects acts of parliament for its materials , and employs the statesman for its architect ? The expediency - philoso- phy does this . It takes government into partnership- assigns to it entire control of its ...
... assumed permanence , selects acts of parliament for its materials , and employs the statesman for its architect ? The expediency - philoso- phy does this . It takes government into partnership- assigns to it entire control of its ...
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