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... called , is in great part omitted from works on this subject . Only of late years have historians commenced giving us , in any considerable quantity , the truly valuable information . As in past ages the king was every thing and the ...
... called , is in great part omitted from works on this subject . Only of late years have historians commenced giving us , in any considerable quantity , the truly valuable information . As in past ages the king was every thing and the ...
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... of service to the citizen for the regulation of his conduct . The only history that is of practical value is , what may be called De- scriptive Sociology . And the highest office which the historian PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION . V.
... of service to the citizen for the regulation of his conduct . The only history that is of practical value is , what may be called De- scriptive Sociology . And the highest office which the historian PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION . V.
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... called educated , the old plea for extravagant expenditure , that " it is good for trade , ” is still continually urged with full belief in its sufficiency . Scarcely any decrease is observable in the fallacy that whatever gives ...
... called educated , the old plea for extravagant expenditure , that " it is good for trade , ” is still continually urged with full belief in its sufficiency . Scarcely any decrease is observable in the fallacy that whatever gives ...
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... called debts of honour , for the non - payment of which there is no legal penalty , are held more sacred than debts that can be legally enforced ; and on the Stock - Exchange , where only pencil memoranda in the respective note - books ...
... called debts of honour , for the non - payment of which there is no legal penalty , are held more sacred than debts that can be legally enforced ; and on the Stock - Exchange , where only pencil memoranda in the respective note - books ...
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... called the vis medicatrix naturæ , may be found to have its analogue in the social organism ? and will there not very likely come along with the recognition of this , the consciousness that in both cases the one thing needful is to ...
... called the vis medicatrix naturæ , may be found to have its analogue in the social organism ? and will there not very likely come along with the recognition of this , the consciousness that in both cases the one thing needful is to ...
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Page 51 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 271 - ... a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 30 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 42 - To say of the stone which falls to earth that it obeys an attraction which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance, is not to understand the stone's fall.
Page vii - The plan of the ' Descriptive Sociology ' is new, and the task Is one eminently fitted to be dealt with by Mr. Herbert Spencer's faculty of scientific organizing.
Page v - ... the relations of the sexes, and the relations of parents to children. The superstitions, also, from the more important myths down to the charms in common use, should be indicated. Next should come a delineation of the industrial system: showing to what extent the division of labor was carried; how trades were regulated, whether by caste, guilds, or otherwise ; what was the connection between employers and employed ; what were the agencies for distributing commodities, what were the means of communication...