The Logical Process of Social Development: A Theoretical Foundation for Educational Policy from the Standpoint of Sociology

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Henry Holt and Company, 1898 - 358 стор.

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Сторінка 99 - To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.
Сторінка 79 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it, of another which may be called the ethical process...
Сторінка 299 - But one truth must grow ever clearer — the truth that there is an Inscrutable Existence everywhere manifested, to which he [the man of science ] can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty, that he is ever in presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.
Сторінка 179 - And if we consider that a race, in proportion as it is plastic and capable of change, may be regarded as young and vigorous, while a race which is fixed, persistent in form, unable to change, is as surely effete, worn out, in peril of extinction ; we shall gee, I think, the immense importance to a nation of checking the growth of conventionalities.
Сторінка 313 - ... increased study of the various types of human nature that are to be found in the world...
Сторінка 80 - ... the course shaped by the ethical man— the member of society or citizen— necessarily runs counter to that which the nonethical man— the primitive savage, or man as a mere member of the animal kingdom— tends to adopt. The latter fights out the struggle for existence to the bitter end, like any other animal; the former devotes his best energies to the object of setting limits to the struggle.
Сторінка 79 - Men in society are undoubtedly subject to the cosmic process. As among other animals, multiplication goes on without cessation, and involves severe competition for the means of support. The struggle for existence tends to eliminate those less fitted to adapt themselves to the circumstances of their existence.
Сторінка 162 - ... itself. There are two remaining marks of developement : differentiation from surrounding minds, which is the growth of individuality; and closer correspondence with them, wider sympathies, more perfect understanding of others. These, you will instantly admit, are precisely the twin characteristics of a man of genius. He is clearly distinct from the people that surround him, that is how you recognize him ; but then this very distinction must be such as to bind him still closer to them, extend...
Сторінка 331 - I specially wish you not to go away with the idea that the exercise of scientific thought is properly confined to the subjects from which my illustrations have been chiefly drawn to-night. When the Roman jurists applied their experience of Roman citizens to dealings between citizens and aliens, showing by the difference of their actions that they regarded the circumstances as essentially different, they laid the foundations of that great structure which has guided the social progress of Europe. That...
Сторінка 40 - Neither of these competitions is in most historic conditions intensified by extrinsic forces, but in some conditions, such as those now prevailing in the most influential part of the world, both are so intensified. , These are the sort of doctrines with which, under the name of

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