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...at book in order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, ... ...tate and solve. In Mankind in the Making, therefore, I tried to review the social organisation in a different way, to con- sider it as an educational ... ...ack to imaginative writing again. In its two predecessors the treatment of social organisation had been purely objective; here my intention has been a... ...and the freedoms that cluster about them. In spite of myself I find myself framing his case. He is a lover, the most conventional of Anglican lovers, ... ... ection 3 ection 3 ection 3 The difference between the social and economic sciences as they exist in our world* and in this Utopia deserves perhaps a... ...s turned upon us, we should have those ridiculous sham numbers on our con- sciences; but that general restlessness, that brooding stress that pursues ... ...ed him. In the matter of literature and the philosophical and sociological sciences, every higher educational establishment carried its studentships, ...

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... that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they... ...his acquaintances, for whom getting married was one of the numerous facts of social life. For Levin it was the chief affair of life, on which its whol... ...gether in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata. Anna found it difficult now to recall the feeling of almost... ..., I’m talking of the science of agriculture. It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic,... ... preeminence over scientific studies.” Part IV — Chapter 10 369 “The natural sciences have just as great an educational value,” put in Pestsov. “Take ... ...he highest degree moral, while, unfortunately, with the study of the natural sciences are associated the false and noxious doctrines which are the cur... ...lvet that she had had made in Paris, and with costly white lace on her head, framing her face, and particularly becoming, showing up her dazzling beau...

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... a desperate Dick, a carder and a dicer, a professor of the seven damnable sciences, if ever man 32 Kenilworth took degrees in them?’ No, by Heaven! ... ...ances of man wasted and obliterated by ne- glect, and witness the marks of social life effaced gradually by the influence of vegetation, the size of t... ...est and the most inventive brain in England; insomuch, that his cunning in framing such pleasures had made him known to many honourable persons, both ... ...ce in the town of Farringdon were occasioned by his progress in the mystic sciences, and his intercourse with the invisible world. Me also he tried to... ...suasion that he was a sorcerer. And yet his supposed advance in the occult sciences drew to him the secret resort of men too powerful to be named, for... ...ent inscribed with planetary signs, and the lines and calculations used in framing horoscopes, on which he gazed intently for a few moments; and, last... ...nt. Her jealousy of power was lulled asleep; her resolution to forsake all social or domestic ties, and dedicate herself exclusively to the care of he...

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... and gardening, and read over many books on both these subjects; for these sciences, indeed, employed his whole time, and formed his only amusement. H... ...d, and still remain as wise as any sour popish recluse, who buries all his social faculties, and starves his belly while he well lashes his back. To... ...and I fairly confessed to him I had no money in my pocket; yet not without framing a lie for an excuse, and imputing it to my having changed my breech...

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... society. But that makes it all the more essential that public opinion and social environment should not be left to grow up at haphazard as they ordin... ...e state, are necessary because men’s community is imperfect, because man’s social nature expresses itself in conflicting ways, in the clash of interes... ... as the birds. The gift of speech also evidently proves that man is a more social animal than the bees, or any of the herding cattle: for nature, as w... ...oncern- ing government; and this government, which he was so de- sirous of framing in such a manner as to impart to its mem- bers a more entire commun... ...t may appear better to alter them, since it has been found useful in other sciences. Thus the science of physic is extended beyond its ancient bounds;... ...it written laws always to remain without alter- ation; for as in all other sciences, so in politics, it is impos- sible to express everything in writi... ...lic rights. But that this is evidently absurd is clear from other arts and sciences; for with respect to musicians who play on the flute together, the... ...cies, according to the nature of the prevailing party. Every legislator in framing his constitution ought to have a particular regard to those in the ... ...servation and destruction of governments; avoiding what is hurtful, and by framing such laws, written and unwritten, as contain those things which chi...

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...re is real health of body or soul, and the appearance of them; real arts and sciences, and the simulations of them. Now the soul and body have two art... ...is medicine and the other gymnastic. Corre- sponding with these four arts or sciences there are four 15 Plato s Gorgias shams or simulations of them,... ... made aware that formal logic has as yet no existence. The old difficulty of framing a definition recurs. The illusive analogy of the arts and the vir... ...rged in politics. Both in Plato and Aristotle, as well as in the Stoics, the social principle, though taking another form, is really far more prominen... ...ave been found to be as transient and precarious as pleasure. b. The arts or sciences, when pursued without any view to truth, or the improvement of h... ...stence. Might not the novelist, too, make an ideal, or rather many ideals of social life, bet- ter than a thousand sermons? Plato, like the Puritans, ...

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.............................................................................. 703 Chapter XXI Of the Division of the Sciences ............................. ...your lordship; and its having some little corre- spondence with some parts of that nobler and vast sys- tem of the sciences your lordship has made so ... ...The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty de- signs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monu- ... ...ll ever be able to prevail with him to do it. But should that most unshaken rule of morality and foundation of all social virtue, “That one should do ... ... begin by degrees to learn the use of signs. And when they have got the skill to apply the organs of speech to the framing of articulate sounds, they ... ... give and receive information about might be the easier and quicker un- derstood. That this is so, and that men in framing dif- ferent complex ideas, ... ...are the workmanship of the under- standing. And there is nothing more evident than that, for the most part, in the framing of these ideas, the 418 Hu...

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...ny other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instru ments... ...sophers, and the contemplation of the idea of good takes the place of the social and political virtues. In the eighth and ninth books (4) the pervers... ...use a Platonic expression) will “shut him up.” He has reached the stage of framing general no tions, and in this respect is in advance of Cephalus an... ...e right in the principle which was acknowledged by all of us when we were framing the State: the principle, as you will remember, was that one man ca... ...this true of all of them? Yes. And does not the same principle hold in the sciences? The object of science is knowledge (assuming that to be the true ... ...as an object of a particular kind; and this is true of the other arts and sciences? Yes. Now, then, if I have made myself clear, you will under stan...

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...as yet been carried. My wish is to describe, as well as I can, the present social and political state of the country. This I should have attempted, wi... ... woman’s keen eye, and described with a woman’s light but graphic pen, the social defects and 5 Trollope absurdities which our near relatives had ado... ...ure and operation of those political arrangements which had pro- duced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurditie... ...n—such at least is the general idea—the getting to- gether of news and the framing of intelligence is a costly operation. I can only hope that all thi... ...r right to render that worship in the mode most consistent with their con- sciences, no person shall be by law compelled to join or be classed with an... ...eriods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and of all seminaries of them, especially the University at Cam- ... ...itutions by rewards and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and a natural history of the coun...

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...it chiefly concerns within one and the same hour. The mighty Juggernaut of social life, moving onwards with its everlasting thunders, pauses not for a... ...ndirect, whether many or few. The increasing grandeur and magnitude of the social system, the more it multiplies and extends its victims, the more it ... ...e advan- tage which, for such a purpose, he derives from the exagger- ated social estimate of all violence. Personal security being so main an object ... ...s the ne- 215 Thomas de Quincey cessity of working) the apparatus of many sciences towards a composite result; the intellect that retires in one dire... ...ects, till modern times. The Scriptures, therefore, nowhere allude to such sciences, either under the shape of histories, applied to processes current... ...e could he draw any vapor of hope to sustain his preliminary steps? And in framing his plot, which way did he set his face to look out for accomplices...

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...very soon stripped of veil and blonde false wig with long curls, the whole framing of her artificial resemblance to Countess Fanny, and she proved to ... ...or the life of the solitudes was unfeigned, as was his calm overlooking of social distinctions, the self-indulgent dreamer became troubled with an ala... ...ould have been a common idea: no stretching of speech or over- stepping of social rules could waken a suspicion so spiritless in Woodseer. He said: ‘I... ...th us like the tolerated old aristocracy, which may not govern, and is but socially seductive. The deuteragonist or secondary per- son can at times te... ...Relieve me.’ He faced to the opening street door. Lord Feltre stood in the framing of it—a welcome sight. The ‘monastic man of fashion,’ of Gower’s ph... ...iestly interces- sion availed. So Chummy continues a Protestant; dull con- sciences can! But this is incomprehensible, that she, nursing her injury, s...

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...in Westborough,” and flow ing between Hopkinton and Southborough, through Framingham, and between Sudbury and Wayland, where it is sometimes called S... ...t Saxon, Norman, and Celtic names, and strews them up and down this river,—Framingham, Sudbury, Bedford, Carlisle, Billerica, Chelmsford,—and this is ... ...h strong and wilderness tints on any poet’s string. These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting ... ... More arts than those wherein you clerks proceed.” As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past change in the p... ...s way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced... ... pottery and the monuments of inhabitants. However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not 206 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers diverge... ...a thorough practical acquaintance. I stand in the friendliest relation, on social and spiritual grounds, to one who does not perceive what practical s...

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... freely on each man and woman I see, Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house, Putting higher claims for him there with his roll’d up s... ...building: The huge storehouse carried up in the city well under way, The six framing men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on ... ... stately house shall be the music house, Others for other arts—learning, the sciences, shall all be here, None shall be slighted, none but shall here ... ...f one man or one woman to day—the average man of to day, It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts, It is in the broad show of artificial ...

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...er One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Three: Education as Direction ........................................................................................ ...

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..... 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.......................................................................

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... 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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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... 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...

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...ros and cons of the saintly char- acter— Saints versus “strong” men— Their social function must be considered— Abstractly the saint is the highest typ... ... [4] Max Nordau, in his bulky book entitled Degen- eration. In the natural sciences and industrial arts it never occurs to anyone to try to refute opi... ...re for my safety. I could give hundreds of in- stances, in school matters, social problems, financial difficulties, etc. That he is mine and I am his ... ... for a moment the habits of life into which we are born. There are certain social conventions or customs and alleged requirements, there is a theologi... ...moter schemes and hopes with which it stands related. Its significance and framing give it the chief part of its value. Let it be known to lead nowher... ...ed, moreover, that all those who before me had sought for an answer in the sciences have also found nothing. And not only this, but that they have rec... ...oubt in my mind that pure Christian- ity and pure Buddhism, and the Mental Sciences and all Religions fundamentally teach what has been a dis- covery ... ...f. I also said that in my last lecture I should have to try my own hand at framing such an hypothesis. The time has now come for this attempt. Who say...

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...terests of this school are in general philosophy and the philosophy of the sciences, rather than in psychology; they have derived a strong impulsion f... ...s opposed to desire for facts, is exceedingly potent both individually and socially. According to the form of belief desired, it is called vanity, opt... ...I think it is this characteristic, more than any other, that distinguishes sciences dealing with living or- ganisms from physics. The best writer on m... ...is not known, but a conventional origin is clearly just as mythical as the social contract by which Hobbes and Rousseau supposed civil government to h... ...e attention than we other- wise should do to the private as opposed to the social use of language. Language profoundly affects our thoughts, and it is... ...IT IS SAID to be one of the merits of the human mind that it is capable of framing abstract ideas, and of conducting nonsensational thought. In this i... ...n ad- equate philosophy of any one science without taking account of other sciences. The behaviourist philosophy of psychol- ogy, though in many respe...

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... the sword, would chastise such atrocious breaches of moral obligation and social justice. The probability of incompatible alliances between the dif- ... ...ederal head, 90 The Federalist Papers as resulting from the nature of the social compact between the States, it must be by inference and construction... ...self incapable of limitation. And there are other truths in the two latter sciences which, if they cannot pretend to rank in the class of axioms, are ... ...the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously leveled. But in the sciences of morals and politics, men are found far less tractable. T o a ce... ... State ought to fall considerably short of two hundred thousand pounds. In framing a government for posterity as well as ourselves, we ought, in those... ...government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to an assembly of men, but has been perfo... ..., are contrary to the first prin- 201 The Federalist Papers ciples of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former... ...- ther external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be adminis- tered by men over men, the gre... ...shape. Publius. *Hume’s “Essays,” vol. i., page 128: “The Rise of Arts and Sciences.’’ To return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go to http://...

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...owed with animation and impulsiveness. T o be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she beca... ... to the prince and smiling amiably at him as if to show that political and social topics were ended and the time had come for intimate conversation—“I... ...mbled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Prince V asili’s daughter, the beauti... .... “The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chem- istry, and the like, into which intelle... ...the interpretation of the seven pillars and steps of the Temple, the seven sciences, the seven virtues, the seven vices, and the seven gifts of the Ho... ...ndane science and our sacred all- embracing teaching is clear to me. Human sciences dis- sect everything to comprehend it, and kill everything to exam... ...ldiers, seeking refuge from life: some in ambition, some in cards, some in framing laws, some in women, some in toys, some in horses, some in poli- ti...

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...n scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for several centuries before the Renaissance, was, roughly speaki... ...re Budah, 195 The Koran sorcerers, especially the blacksmith, and he is a social out- cast, as among the Somal; Throughout the rest of El-Islam, th... ... Zamakshary relates that this passage was revealed when the Thaqyfites in framing the document of agreement be- tween themselves and Muhammad, requir...

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... to be brought to every fire; and we agreed to meet once a month and spend a social evening together, in discoursing and communicating The Autobiograp... ...cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into t... ...ted 1786. 1787 Reelected President; sent as delegate to the con vention for framing a Federal Constitution. 1788 Retires from public life. 1790 April...