 | Peter Viereck - 200 стор.
...more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in one hundred years. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper." The logic of formulas can predict how dead chemicals will act but not how living humans will act. Therefore,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 стор.
...privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection — or rather the...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 стор.
...correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world," a mechanism both providential and natural, "the result of profound reflection, or rather the...nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it."52 Burke's providential piety has warmth, sentimentality, patriotic fervor, and urgency, all qualities... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 стор.
...his Reflections on the Revolution in France that 'A spirit of innovation is generally the result of selfish temper and confined views. People will not...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors'; and he argues for hereditary monarchy, inherited wealth, and organic notions of continuity. See Conor... | |
 | Edward A. Page - 2007 - 218 стор.
...environmental and human resources in the absence of reciprocity. Again, a remark from Burke is apposite: People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 561 стор.
...Event, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien (London: Penguin, 1968; orig. pub. 1790). See, for example, pp. 119-21: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Jane Fowler Morse - 2012 - 369 стор.
...sense to him than Thomas Paine's call for a revolution every generation if necessary. In Burke's view, "A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views."6' People who attempt it are "confounded by the complication of distempered passions, their... | |
 | Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 стор.
...Rationalism, 58. 32. Edmund Burke, who thought about this matter a good deal, commented that "[pjeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 119. 33. See Bromwich, Choice of Inheritance, 43-78. 34. The... | |
 | William James Booth - 2006 - 276 стор.
...of his will in the future. That, as I have suggested, is the insight underlying Burke's remark that "people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."10 Resistance to memory comes not just from a certain presentism but also, in a number of... | |
 | Philip Atkinson - 2007 - 277 стор.
...In France" by Edmund Burke, paragraph ,' The Spirit Of Innovation' "This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy...the result of a selfish temper and confined views. " 6 Smacking Ban 253 7 Suspicious Minds 226 8 Guilty Until Proven Innocent 261 9 The Child Terror 260... | |
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. 
