 It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss to the object, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by liberty, without which...  The Literary journal - Pàgina 3951804Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pàgines
...whole Church revenue is not always employed, and to every shilling, in charity ; nor perhaps ought it ; but something is generally so employed. It is better...to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to freo will, even with some loss to the ohject, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments... | |
 | C. Violet Butler - 1912 - 280 pàgines
...happygo-lucky, and the self-respecting and independentminded. CHAPTER XII CONCLUSION Two theories: " It is better to cherish virtue and humanity by leaving...machines and instruments of a political benevolence." — Bu RKE. " Mann 1st, was er ist." WHAT conclusions does this sketch of social life and work in the... | |
 | 1914 - 552 pàgines
...from Burke brings to a focus all that has been attempted to be brought out in this rambling paper. "It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence. The world on... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 pàgines
...; and if he finds that power, in politics as in mechanics, he cannot be at a loss to apply it. (c) It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving...machines and instruments of a political benevolence. (d) In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. (e)... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 pàgines
...Materialismus vieler Theoretiker der Revolution und dessen praktischer Konsequenz polemisiert: "It is much better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will ... than to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence."3 So wie Burke auch... | |
 | Otfried Schütz - 1993 - 512 pàgines
...Materialismus vieler Theoretiker der Revolution und dessen praktischer Konsequenz polemisiert: "It is much better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will ... than to make men mere machines and Instruments of a political benevolence."3 So wie Burke auch... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 pàgines
...whole church revenue is not always employed, and to every shilling, in charity; nor perhaps ought it; but something is generally so employed. It is better...machines and instruments of a political benevolence. (Reflections, 203) In attempting to convert the state into a machine of 'political benevolence', and... | |
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