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Page vi
... political program , being but a result of the general failure hitherto to realise the nature of civilisation , in every sense of the term . Some such criticism must be made even in the case of writers who have done much to elucidate the ...
... political program , being but a result of the general failure hitherto to realise the nature of civilisation , in every sense of the term . Some such criticism must be made even in the case of writers who have done much to elucidate the ...
Page viii
... political thought with which Mr Lecky is now , like Sir Henry Maine , identified . It is in his Ancient Law , his most widely circulated book , that Maine explains the relative stagnation of China by the suggestion that the Chinese laws ...
... political thought with which Mr Lecky is now , like Sir Henry Maine , identified . It is in his Ancient Law , his most widely circulated book , that Maine explains the relative stagnation of China by the suggestion that the Chinese laws ...
Page ix
... political alliance with the Duke of Argyll ; and Mr Lecky , being not a more but perhaps even a less con- sistent teacher than the Duke , is inevitably following the Duke's intellectual path in this matter . Like Maine , he has failed ...
... political alliance with the Duke of Argyll ; and Mr Lecky , being not a more but perhaps even a less con- sistent teacher than the Duke , is inevitably following the Duke's intellectual path in this matter . Like Maine , he has failed ...
Page xii
... political moderation and en- durance , . . . impatience of arbitrary restraint , " etc. , and the " intellectual quickness and emotional nature of the Celt . " 2 In the same breath Mr Allen speaks of the Teutonic differentiation of ...
... political moderation and en- durance , . . . impatience of arbitrary restraint , " etc. , and the " intellectual quickness and emotional nature of the Celt . " 2 In the same breath Mr Allen speaks of the Teutonic differentiation of ...
Page xiii
... political and other , and for the cause of these in preliminary conditions of environment , natural and political - in anything , in short , rather than in primordial and perpetual qualities of " race . " The suggestion may seem the ...
... political and other , and for the cause of these in preliminary conditions of environment , natural and political - in anything , in short , rather than in primordial and perpetual qualities of " race . " The suggestion may seem the ...
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Page 273 - Of all vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences on the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Page 165 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 300 - ... the superior part has a natural right to govern, the inferior part has a natural right to be governed...
Page 148 - The English, nation was shuddering over the atrocities of the Duke of Alva. The children in the nurseries were being inflamed to patriotic rage and madness by tales of Spanish tyranny. Yet Alva's bloody sword never touched the young, the defenceless, or those whose sex even dogs can recognise and respect.
Page 254 - Unheard-of confiscations were made in the northern parts, upon grounds of plots and conspiracies, never proved upon their supposed authors. The war of chicane succeeded to the war of arms and of hostile statutes ; and a regular series of operations...
Page 169 - ... nations. If there is anything sadder than the calamity itself, it is the unmistakable sincerity and good faith with which numbers of Englishmen confess themselves incapable of comprehending it. They know not that the disaffection which neither has nor needs any other motive than aversion to the rulers, is the climax to a long growth of disaffection arising from causes that might have been removed.
Page 148 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...
Page 30 - Aryan languages together point to an earlier period of language, when the first ancestors of the Indians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Slaves, the Celts, and the Germans were living together within the same enclosures, nay under the same roof.
Page 89 - English society died into inaction or despair. Material life lingered on indeed, commerce still widened, but its progress was dissociated from all the nobler elements of national well-being. The towns sank again into close oligarchies ; the bondsmen struggling forward to freedom fell back into a serfage which still leaves its trace on the soil. Literature reached its lowest ebb. The religious revival of the Lollard was trodden out in blood, while the Church shrivelled into a self-seeking secular...
Page 106 - ... equivalent to transportation : he consoles himself with the hope that something will turn up to alter the apparent certainty of his exile ; and in this hope, with his mind ever fixed upon his return, he does nothing for posterity in the colony. He rarely even plants a fruit-tree, hoping that his stay will not allow him to gather from it. This accounts for the poverty of the gardens and enclosures around the houses of the English inhabitants, and the general dearth of any fruits worth eating.