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Page vi
... racial peculiarity , I take up an inde- pendent and non - partisan position , and am not answerable for what I reckon to be fallacies in the talk of politicians with whose program I am in agreement . So , too , when so able a writer as ...
... racial peculiarity , I take up an inde- pendent and non - partisan position , and am not answerable for what I reckon to be fallacies in the talk of politicians with whose program I am in agreement . So , too , when so able a writer as ...
Page xii
... racial traits and tendencies which make for good or ill in the fate of nations as well as of indi- viduals . " 1 Yet the work to which this doctrine is prefixed not only gives no proof of such primordial " race tendencies " as it ...
... racial traits and tendencies which make for good or ill in the fate of nations as well as of indi- viduals . " 1 Yet the work to which this doctrine is prefixed not only gives no proof of such primordial " race tendencies " as it ...
Page xv
... racial physique is dealt with at some length in the following pages : here it may suffice to say that the notion of a " totally distinct " racial type of mind , which yet nobody can specify , is quashed in the same breath by Mr Huxley ...
... racial physique is dealt with at some length in the following pages : here it may suffice to say that the notion of a " totally distinct " racial type of mind , which yet nobody can specify , is quashed in the same breath by Mr Huxley ...
Page xvi
... racial peculiarities , without in the least accounting for the presence of the same phases in the other races , and with- out giving a thought to the explanation set up by differences of culture stage - this though it was the essayist's ...
... racial peculiarities , without in the least accounting for the presence of the same phases in the other races , and with- out giving a thought to the explanation set up by differences of culture stage - this though it was the essayist's ...
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... racial malice . They could justly argue , as against the school of uncritical Irish Nationalists , that there are abundant sources of evil in Irish conditions apart from English interference . But they took the further line of denying ...
... racial malice . They could justly argue , as against the school of uncritical Irish Nationalists , that there are abundant sources of evil in Irish conditions apart from English interference . But they took the further line of denying ...
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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.