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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... Civilization . It covers seven consecu- tive Tables ; and the Extracts occupy seventy pages folio . Mr. COLLIER is now collect- ing materials for presenting , in a similar manner , another of the great European Civilizations . The ...
... Civilization . It covers seven consecu- tive Tables ; and the Extracts occupy seventy pages folio . Mr. COLLIER is now collect- ing materials for presenting , in a similar manner , another of the great European Civilizations . The ...
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... civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human development . It is not essen- tial but incidental . As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government ; so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct ...
... civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human development . It is not essen- tial but incidental . As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government ; so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct ...
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... civilization ad- vances , does government decay . To the bad it is essen- tial ; to the good , not . It is the check which national wickedness makes to itself , and exists only to the same degree . Its continuance is proof of still ...
... civilization ad- vances , does government decay . To the bad it is essen- tial ; to the good , not . It is the check which national wickedness makes to itself , and exists only to the same degree . Its continuance is proof of still ...
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... civilization we signify the adap- tation that has already taken place . The changes that constitute progress are the successive steps of the transi- tion . And the belief in human perfectibility , merely amounts to the belief , that in ...
... civilization we signify the adap- tation that has already taken place . The changes that constitute progress are the successive steps of the transi- tion . And the belief in human perfectibility , merely amounts to the belief , that in ...
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... civilization being artificial , it is a part of na- ture ; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower . The modifications mankind have undergone , and are still undergoing , result from a law ...
... civilization being artificial , it is a part of na- ture ; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower . The modifications mankind have undergone , and are still undergoing , result from a law ...
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