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... kind and amount of education , but with re- spect to the progress made in science , and the prevailing manner of thinking . The degree of aesthetic culture , as displayed in architecture , sculpture , painting , dress , music , poetry ...
... kind and amount of education , but with re- spect to the progress made in science , and the prevailing manner of thinking . The degree of aesthetic culture , as displayed in architecture , sculpture , painting , dress , music , poetry ...
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... kind of chart of the social con- dition of the community to which it is devoted . His object was at first solely to facilitate his own work , but it soon ap- peared that the results would be of great general importance , and Mr. Spencer ...
... kind of chart of the social con- dition of the community to which it is devoted . His object was at first solely to facilitate his own work , but it soon ap- peared that the results would be of great general importance , and Mr. Spencer ...
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... kind go whole families of others . People who think that the relations between expendi- ture and production are so simple , naturally assume simplicity in other relations among social phenomena . Is there distress somewhere ? They ...
... kind go whole families of others . People who think that the relations between expendi- ture and production are so simple , naturally assume simplicity in other relations among social phenomena . Is there distress somewhere ? They ...
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... kind , has been established . It is not thought needful to look back in our own history to see whether kindred agencies have done what they were expected to do . It is not thought needful to ask the more general question - how far ...
... kind , has been established . It is not thought needful to look back in our own history to see whether kindred agencies have done what they were expected to do . It is not thought needful to ask the more general question - how far ...
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... common sense as best we may . " And then , behind the more scientifically - minded who give this answer , there are those who hold , tacitly or overtly , that guid- 1 ance of the kind indicated is not possible , OUR NEED OF IT . 23.
... common sense as best we may . " And then , behind the more scientifically - minded who give this answer , there are those who hold , tacitly or overtly , that guid- 1 ance of the kind indicated is not possible , OUR NEED OF IT . 23.
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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...