Theories of Social Progress: A Critical Study of the Attempts to Formulate the Conditions of Human AdvanceMacmillan, 1918 - 579 páginas |
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... whole world are cast into the crucible , as in the present war , it becomes imperative that the world be rebuilt according to some sounder principles , principles which will make the world safer and assure its improvement . Under such ...
... whole world are cast into the crucible , as in the present war , it becomes imperative that the world be rebuilt according to some sounder principles , principles which will make the world safer and assure its improvement . Under such ...
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... whole - world . And yet such analyses and mosaics are the price of our in- tellectual existence . Imagine sitting on your leopard skin and trying to think or feel " society , " or " I , " or " human nature , " as living wholes ! We must ...
... whole - world . And yet such analyses and mosaics are the price of our in- tellectual existence . Imagine sitting on your leopard skin and trying to think or feel " society , " or " I , " or " human nature , " as living wholes ! We must ...
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... whole forestry service in the United States is based on this principle . Further , the stock breeder and the botanist , if they do not offer us the means , at least show us certain positive encouraging results . Such processes as ...
... whole forestry service in the United States is based on this principle . Further , the stock breeder and the botanist , if they do not offer us the means , at least show us certain positive encouraging results . Such processes as ...
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... whole . Ten righteous men might have saved Sodom , but the un - rightness of one would have sufficed to bring down its destruction . This sense of group responsi- 1bility becomes the source of a tremendous sanction for discipline and ...
... whole . Ten righteous men might have saved Sodom , but the un - rightness of one would have sufficed to bring down its destruction . This sense of group responsi- 1bility becomes the source of a tremendous sanction for discipline and ...
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... whole aspect of savage life can be summarized in the doctrine of metamorphosis , as it forms one of the three cardinal principles of primitive nature - philosophy , namely , i that all is possible , that all is related , and that all ...
... whole aspect of savage life can be summarized in the doctrine of metamorphosis , as it forms one of the three cardinal principles of primitive nature - philosophy , namely , i that all is possible , that all is related , and that all ...
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activity animal become belief century chap CHAPTER character child civilization classes climate concept conscious conservatism coöperation criticism culture definite dominant economic Edvard Westermarck elements environment ethical eugenics eugenists evidence experience fact factors feeling force function genius Hegel Hence heredity human nature human progress ideals ideas imagination increasing individual industrial Industrial Revolution instinct institutions intellectual intelligence interests invention J. S. Mill Jour Karl Pearson labor less man's means ment mental merely mind modern Montesquieu moral motive natural selection nomic organization perhaps personality philosophy physical Plato political population possible Preface to Politics primitive principle problem production Professor psychology public opinion race racial religion religious savage scientific sense sentiments sexual selection social evolution social progress society Sociology spirit struggle theory things thought tion true truth unity wealth whole
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Página 337 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are...
Página 114 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 408 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Página 183 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.
Página 519 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 359 - With respect to them it may be laid down that social necessities and social opinion are always more or less in advance of Law. We may come indefinitely near to the closing of the gap between them, but it has a - /perpetual tendency to reopen. Law is stable-: / the societies we are speaking of are progressive,. \ The greater or less happiness of a people depends v- > on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
Página 182 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Página 499 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Página 202 - The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life, and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure...
Página 501 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.