... the state of the country in regard to the distribution of the elements of social power. Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the go... ...sence of the whole, the seat of the supreme power, is determined for it by social circumstances. That there is a portion of truth in this doctrine I a... ...on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social 14 Considerations on Representative Government forces. One person w... ...dence, civil and penal legislation, fi nancial and commercial policy, are sciences in themselves, or, rather, separate members of the comprehensive s... ... always be drawn up by them; that the government would devolve on them the framing of all its bills; and that private members of the House of Commons ...

..... 15 Chapter III That the ideally best Form of Government is Representative Government .................................... 34 Chapter IV Under what Social Conditions Representative Government is Inapplicable ................................... 51 Chapter V Of the Proper Functions of Representative Bodies.......................................................................

...in a brief formula, what the science is, and wherein it differs from other sciences, so, it might be supposed, did the framing of such a formula natur... ... wherein it differs from other sciences, so, it might be supposed, did the framing of such a formula naturally precede the success- ful cultivation of... ...y scien- tific treatises. The definitions which those works furnish of the sciences, for the most part either do not fit them—some being too wide, som... ...ald Stewart had in view, when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is jus... ...ibution of wealth in all states of mankind, but only in what is termed the social state; nor so far as they depend upon the laws of human nature, but ... ...n a somewhat looser sense, laws of society, or laws of human nature in the social state. These laws, or general truths, form the subject of a branch o... ...ect of a branch of science which may be aptly designated from the title of social economy; somewhat less happily by that of specu- lative politics, or...

...ier I attended the excellent winter courses of lectures at the Faculté des Sciences, those of M. Anglada on chemistry, of M. Provençal on zoology, and... ...ry metaphysics, M. Gergonne, on logic, under the name of Philosophy of the Sciences. I also went through a course of the higher math ematics under th... ...e is feeble and precarious, but the opinion of its necessity for moral and social purposes almost universal; and when those who reject revelation, ver... ...ound in a young man formed by a particular mode of thought or a particular social circle. His younger brother, Charles Austin, of whom at this time an... ...l of my companions formed a class. For several years from this period, our social studies assumed a shape which contributed very much to my mental pro... ...nd effects in physical science, I soon saw that in the more perfect of the sciences, we ascend, by generalization from particulars, to the tendencies ... ...Chadwick— as well as bestowed much thought of my own, for the pur pose of framing such amendments and additional clauses as might make the Bill reall...

... no means the outcome of malevolence, but depend on their education, their social status, even their professions. The good artist should expect no rec... ... firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the read- ing ... ...de visible, tan- gible, in the struggles, in the contacts of the fine con- sciences, in their perplexities, in the sophism of their mistakes. For a fi... ...fore we behold him in the dock, a stranger to all historical, political or social considerations which can be brought to bear upon his case. He remain... ...destroy. The Master who had meditated so deeply on the rebirth of arts and sciences, on the inward beauty of all things,—ships’ lines, women’s faces—a... ...rifice into the texture of their common task, and, as far as emotion went, framing the horror of mankind’s catastrophic time within the rigid rules of...