Our Democracy: Its Origins and Its TasksH. Holt, 1917 - 327 страница |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 75
Страница 6
... important inventions , so far as getting a living was concerned . For they had : First - Fire . We know this because there are ashes in the caves . Second - The bow and arrow , which enabled them to get food from animals and birds . We ...
... important inventions , so far as getting a living was concerned . For they had : First - Fire . We know this because there are ashes in the caves . Second - The bow and arrow , which enabled them to get food from animals and birds . We ...
Страница 7
... important for getting a living as these nine was afterward discovered or invented until the steam engine added a new and great servant to man . This invention had its beginnings in a crude pumping engine about two hundred years ago ...
... important for getting a living as these nine was afterward discovered or invented until the steam engine added a new and great servant to man . This invention had its beginnings in a crude pumping engine about two hundred years ago ...
Страница 16
... important to under- stand this early clan which we may think of as the first plan of coöperation for union and government . What is a clan ? Perhaps the simplest way to get at this is to think of it as a group 16 FIRST COOPERATION-THE ...
... important to under- stand this early clan which we may think of as the first plan of coöperation for union and government . What is a clan ? Perhaps the simplest way to get at this is to think of it as a group 16 FIRST COOPERATION-THE ...
Страница 22
... important tradi- tions about the ancestors of the tribe and is shown some of the sacred objects in which the ancestral spirits are supposed to live . All these customs are well adapted to inculcate great respect for the tradi- tions of ...
... important tradi- tions about the ancestors of the tribe and is shown some of the sacred objects in which the ancestral spirits are supposed to live . All these customs are well adapted to inculcate great respect for the tradi- tions of ...
Страница 23
... important customs prescribe how to deal with Settling quarrels , for a group of people must have some way disputes to settle disputes . One way is to have a sort of regu- lated duel — the parties try to get the better of each other ...
... important customs prescribe how to deal with Settling quarrels , for a group of people must have some way disputes to settle disputes . One way is to have a sort of regu- lated duel — the parties try to get the better of each other ...
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
amendment American band of warriors belong better called Celts church citizens Civil claim clan colonies common law conquered Constitution coöperation craftsmen customs Cyneheard decide Declaration democracy democratic Domesday Book early England equal Europe factories favor feeling fighting freedom gain gentleman gentry Germany gilds give greater union Greece honor idea important Indians Industrial Revolution interests judge Julius Cæsar jury justice keep kill kind king labor land legislature liberty living lord Magna Carta means ment merchants Monroe Doctrine nation natural Parliament party peace peasants political political party President protect race railroad reason representatives respect rule savage schools secure self-government serfs slavery slaves sometimes taxes things thought tion towns trade trial by jury tribe union United villeins vote wages wanted wealth whole women word workmen
Популарни одломци
Страница 171 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
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.