The Development of English Thought: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of History

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Macmillan, 1899 - 415 стор.
 

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Сторінка 215 - We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.
Сторінка 316 - He was not insensible to pleasures; but he deemed very few of them worth the price which, at least in the present state of society, must be paid for them.
Сторінка 148 - Let us return again to the state of nature, and consider men as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddenly (like mushrooms) come to full maturity, without all kind of engagement to each other.
Сторінка 341 - Those parts of my writings, and especially of the Political Economy, which contemplate possibilities in the future such as, when affirmed by socialists, have in general been fiercely denied by political economists, would, but for her, either have been absent, or the suggestions would have been made much more timidly and in a more qualified form. But while she thus rendered me bolder in speculation on human affairs, her practical turn of mind, and her almost unerring estimate of practical obstacles,...
Сторінка 164 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...
Сторінка 347 - I said about his instinct for arresting exceptions : it was as though he were charged with theorising power ready to flow into any channel on the slightest disturbance, so that no fact, however small, could avoid releasing a stream of theory, and thus the fact became magnified into importance.
Сторінка 323 - The science which traces the laws of such of the phenomena of society as arise from the combined operations of mankind for the production of wealth, in so far as those phenomena are not modified by the pursuit of any other object.
Сторінка 215 - It is sufficient for my purpose, if I have made it appear, that, in the production and conduct of the passions, there is a Certain regular mechanism, which is susceptible of as ao* curate a disquisition, as the laws of motion, optics, hydrestatics, or any part of natural philosophy.
Сторінка 176 - there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason"; and in the second, Matthew Tindal asserted that " the Gospel is merely a republication of the religion of nature.
Сторінка 217 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me. Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm which beats upon me from every side.

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