Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political SocietyC. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - 224 Seiten |
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... descendants ; these primitive facts all theories admit , and all of them labour to explain . Nor have these plain principles any relation to the old difficulties of necessity and freewill . Every Free- willist THE PRELIMINARY AGE . 9.
... descendants ; these primitive facts all theories admit , and all of them labour to explain . Nor have these plain principles any relation to the old difficulties of necessity and freewill . Every Free- willist THE PRELIMINARY AGE . 9.
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... plain to everyone . Nothing is more intel- ligible than a moral deterioration of mankind — nothing than an æsthetic degradation - nothing than a political degradation . But you cannot imagine mankind giving up the plain utensils of ...
... plain to everyone . Nothing is more intel- ligible than a moral deterioration of mankind — nothing than an æsthetic degradation - nothing than a political degradation . But you cannot imagine mankind giving up the plain utensils of ...
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... plain , a nation means a like body of men , because of that like- ness capable of acting together , and because of that likeness inclined to obey similar rules ; and even this Homer's Cyclops - used only to sparse human beings- could ...
... plain , a nation means a like body of men , because of that like- ness capable of acting together , and because of that likeness inclined to obey similar rules ; and even this Homer's Cyclops - used only to sparse human beings- could ...
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... obvious . There was doubtless much else in Jewish history - whole elements with which I am not here concerned . But so much is plain . The Jews were in the beginning the most unstable of nations ; they 28 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
... obvious . There was doubtless much else in Jewish history - whole elements with which I am not here concerned . But so much is plain . The Jews were in the beginning the most unstable of nations ; they 28 PHYSICS AND POLITICS .
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... plain . The strongest nation has always been conquering the weaker ; sometimes even subduing it , but always pre- vailing over it . Every intellectual gain , so to speak , that a nation possessed was in the earliest times made use of ...
... plain . The strongest nation has always been conquering the weaker ; sometimes even subduing it , but always pre- vailing over it . Every intellectual gain , so to speak , that a nation possessed was in the earliest times made use of ...
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