 ... The systems of legislators are experiments made on human life and manners, society and government. Zoroaster, Confucius, Mithras, Odin, Thor, Mahomet, Lycurgus, Solon, Romulus, and a thousand others may be compared to philosophers making experiments...  "Greenbacks": Or, the Evils and the Remedy of Using "Promise to Pay the ... - Page 13by Observer - 1864 - 29 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Adams - Constitutional history - 1797 - 448 pages
...may be compared to philofophers making experiments on the elements. Unhappily political experiments cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours. The operation once begun, runs over whole quarters of the globe, and is not finifhed in many thoufands... | |
 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 666 pages
...may be compared to philosophers making experiments on the elements. "Unhappily, political experiments cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours. The operation once begun, runs over whole quarters of the globe, and is not finished in many thousands... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...come to take the place of allegiance in a monarchy ; yet, happily for them, " political experiments cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours," else their insulting invective might have been stayed in their throats. For is it not apparent that... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...designed to discover some unknown truth, principle, or effect, or to establish it when discovered. A political experiment cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours, y. Adamt. 2. t A becoming practically acquainted with something; an experience. This was a useful experiment... | |
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