Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... civilization - is natural to a particular phase of human deve- lopment . It is not essential 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 deve- lopment . It is not essential 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 advances , does government decay . To the bad it is essential ; 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 - existing ...
... civilization advances , does government decay . To the bad it is essential ; 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 - existing ...
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... civilization we signify the adaptation that has already taken place . The changes that constitute progress are the successive steps of the transition . And the belief in human perfectibility , merely amounts to the belief , that in ...
... civilization we signify the adaptation that has already taken place . The changes that constitute progress are the successive steps of the transition . 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 nature ; 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 underlying ...
... civilization being artificial , it is a part of nature ; 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 underlying ...
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... civilization , in which the rights of life and personal liberty no longer require inculcating . § 3 . Into such questions as the punishment of death , the per- petual imprisonment of criminals , and the like , we cannot here enter ...
... civilization , in which the rights of life and personal liberty no longer require inculcating . § 3 . Into such questions as the punishment of death , the per- petual imprisonment of criminals , and the like , we cannot here enter ...
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