...coffee, calico or tobacco, or 'some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little 1 ch. xiii. 6. temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy...dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of a particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower...

...rights he offers social rights ; for liberty \,/ he offers law. Society means to him a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born. But in his protest against a mechanical , individualism he falls into the opposite...

...the words of Burke, is a "partnership in every virtue and in all perfection, and as the end of such partnership cannot be obtained in many generations,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born". If Milton had known\ human nature and better appreciated what Emerson calls "the ! constant mind of...

...(?cii» foffte..." [®enc, aa O., @. 291*).] not only between those who are living, but between tho' who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to bo born. (Burke, II., pag. 368..) *) At first view this geometrical basis of theirs presents not much...

...purposes of our being, for the promotion of science, art, virtue. " It is," Burke holds with passion, " not a partnership in things subservient only to the...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." Bossuet was not wrong in indicating the new domination of the State. What the people gained, said he,...

...when he reminds us that "there is no other genuine enthusiasm for humanity it is not a partnership subservient only to the gross animal existence of...those who are dead, and those who are to be born."— Reflections on the Revolution in France 1For a sketch of history in this sense, see Hegel's Philosophy...

...culture, our settlements will begin to realize the meaning of Edmund Burke's great words about society: It is a partnership in all science; a partnership...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. 1 This suggests that the true meaning of social work is found where it undertakes to deal with totals,...

...profound description of Society which Burke gave to his generation: ' Society is indeed a Contract. ... It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership...those who are dead, and those who are to be born.' 1 It was not given to those who fell to see the new world for which they fought. It may not be given...

...purposes, but also of QUT g« its historic continuity, Burke sublimely visioned the state heritage as "a partnership in all science, a partnership in all...those who are dead and those who are to be born." It is in this last conception that one finds the most impressive motive for political interest and...

...vicious circle he rises to a superb confession of faith. Society is, indeed, not a legal covenant, but ' a partnership, not only between those who are living,...who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born.' It is this breach with the past, this mortgaging of the future, that horrifies...