Democracy and Empire: With Studies of Their Psychological, Economic, and Moral Foundations

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Macmillan, 1901 - 363 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 72 - We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters; though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate.
Pàgina 189 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Pàgina 214 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast — its splendour, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day ! You understand me ? I have said enough ? Fest.
Pàgina 62 - The intelligence of the universe is social. Accordingly it has made the inferior things for the sake of the superior, and it has fitted the superior to one another. Thou seest how it has subordinated, co-ordinated and assigned to everything its proper portion, and has brought together into concord with one another the things which are the best.
Pàgina 39 - gin to fear that thou art past all aid From me and from my calling; yet so young, I still would— Man. Look on me! there is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age...
Pàgina 309 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Pàgina 331 - His conclusions are reached by a series of logical chapters that cannot fail to impress the reader." — Boston Traveler. " The questions are handled with scholarly skill, and, it is needless to say, without a scintilla of partisanship. A fair, candid, historic treatment of a difficult problem is what we get, and when you lay the little volume down you feel like offering your hand to the professor on the thoroughly impartial and dispassionate manner in which he has done his work. We very seldom...
Pàgina 167 - According to the one party, the preponderating power should be with education and property. According •to the other, the ultimate source of power, the supreme right of appeal and control, belongs legitimately to the. majority of the nation told by the head — or in other words, to the poorest, the most ignorant, the most incapable, who are necessarily the most numerous.
Pàgina 72 - To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to a master among his neighbours and equals. We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual, and one may say, the natural state of things which nobody ever hears of. Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate.

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