The Quarterly journal of the Poona sarvajanik sabha, ed. by S.H. Chiplonkar, Том 1Dnyan Prakash Press, 1878 |
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Сторінка 17 - And again, if it be true that a wise man, like a good refiner, can gather gold out of the drossiest volume, and that a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea, or without book...
Сторінка 26 - It is in vain to say, that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Сторінка 31 - ... as one of the securities against corrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now be needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people, to prescribe opinions to them, and determine what doctrines or what arguments they shall be allowed to hear. This aspect of the question, besides, has been so often and so triumphantly enforced by preceding writers, that it needs not be specially insisted on in this place.
Сторінка 11 - And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the exploit of that gallant man who thought to pound up the crows by shutting his park gate.
Сторінка 16 - We may consider ... as one criterion of the goodness of government the degree in which it tends to increase the sum of good qualities in the governed, collectively and individually...
Сторінка 16 - ... the essence of good government is to cover the land with darkness ; for otherwise it must be admitted to be one of the most imperative duties of a government to confer the incalculable...
Сторінка 16 - If their argument be that the spread of knowledge may eventually be fatal to our rule in India, I close with them on that point, and maintain that, whatever may be the consequence, it is our duty to communicate the benefits of knowledge. If India could be preserved as a part of the British Empire only by keeping its inhabitants in a state of ignorance, our domination would be a curse to the country, and ought to cease.
Сторінка 11 - ... disputation, and that these books of either sort are most and soonest catching to the learned (from whom to...
Сторінка 26 - In a more improved state, few, even among the poorest of the people, are limited to actual necessaries, and to a bare sufficiency of those : and the increase is kept within bounds, not by excess of deaths, but by limitation of births.