Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social Functions of the Wealthier ClassesMacmillan, 1898 - 385 pages |
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Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social ... William Hurrell Mallock Affichage du livre entier - 1898 |
Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social ... William Hurrell Mallock Affichage du livre entier - 1898 |
Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social ... William Hurrell Mallock Affichage du livre entier - 1901 |
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Page 63 - ... one of the most important, and at the same time, one of the least expensive and troublesome, which we possess.
Page 26 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Page 134 - Thus (to take the most obvious case first), the impelling force to most of the improvements effected in the arts of life, is the desire of increased material comfort; but as we can only act upon external...
Page 133 - Now, the evidence of history and that of human nature combine, by a striking instance of consilience, to show that there really is one social element which is thus predominant and almost paramount among the agents of the social progression.
Page 197 - When two conditions are equally necessary for producing the effect at all, it is unmeaning to say that BO much of it is produced by one and so much by the other : it is like attempting to decide which half of a pair of scissors has most to do in the act of cutting ; or which of the factors, five and six, contributes most to the production of thirty.
Page iii - Tis thus the spirit of a single mind Makes that of multitudes take one direction, As roll the waters to the breathing wind, Or roams the herd beneath the bull's...
Page 132 - In the difficult process of observation and comparison which is here required, it would evidently be a great assistance if it should happen to be the fact that some one element in the complex existence of social man is preeminent over all others as the prime agent of the social movement.
Page 91 - Progress everywhere from the beginning of life has been effected in the same way, and it is possible in no other way. It is the result of selection and rejection.