Our Democracy: Its Origins and Its TasksH. Holt, 1917 - 327 страница |
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... later using copper or bronze , and finally iron . The extraordinary thing is that at a very early time men had made the most important inventions , so far as getting a living was concerned . For they had : First - Fire . We know this ...
... later using copper or bronze , and finally iron . The extraordinary thing is that at a very early time men had made the most important inventions , so far as getting a living was concerned . For they had : First - Fire . We know this ...
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... later but more or less constant danger . This again was because man had not learned how to live in large groups . He had to spend much of his time watching the other fellow , that is , the other clans ; and even so , he was liable to be ...
... later but more or less constant danger . This again was because man had not learned how to live in large groups . He had to spend much of his time watching the other fellow , that is , the other clans ; and even so , he was liable to be ...
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... later between kings and subjects , or class between nobles and common folk ; or as today , between divisions rich and poor , employers and employed . The tribe might make slaves from other tribes , but slavery was Group unity Bound by ...
... later between kings and subjects , or class between nobles and common folk ; or as today , between divisions rich and poor , employers and employed . The tribe might make slaves from other tribes , but slavery was Group unity Bound by ...
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... later , by their contrasts make much unhappi- ness and envy that are escaped by the savage . We do not mind doing without things so much if all share alike . ( 3 ) The group customs and taboos held the mem- bers together . The customs ...
... later , by their contrasts make much unhappi- ness and envy that are escaped by the savage . We do not mind doing without things so much if all share alike . ( 3 ) The group customs and taboos held the mem- bers together . The customs ...
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... later came to be landlords . The dweller in the Hall was therefore a judge , a leader of the military forces , and a landlord . If you should go into the cottages instead of the hall , you would find that almost all the dwellers had ...
... later came to be landlords . The dweller in the Hall was therefore a judge , a leader of the military forces , and a landlord . If you should go into the cottages instead of the hall , you would find that almost all the dwellers had ...
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Страница 169 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Страница 194 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Страница 222 - You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Страница 257 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Страница 202 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of .our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
Страница 129 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Страница 238 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Страница 287 - The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin.
Страница 270 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.