 This effort, however, can at most be only slight, and it will take a long time. In the meantime spontaneous forces will be at work, compared with which our efforts are like those of a man trying to deflect a river, and these forces will have changed the...  The American Journal of Sociology - Page 10publié par - 1920Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Albert Shaw - 1894 - 822 pages
...at work, so that, after a sufficient time, their action may be changed a little, and slowly the Unes of movement may be modified. This effort, however,...the wisdom of all the abandoned ethical systems, the ilébris of all the institutions, and the penalties of all the mistakes. It is only in imagination... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - 1911 - 440 pages
...can do anything at all to straighten them, it will only be by modifying the tendencies of some of y the forces at work, so that, after a sufficient time,...wreckage of all the philosophies, the fragments of all J the civilizations, the wisdom of all the abandoned ethical systems, the debris of all the institutions,... | |
 | 1921 - 648 pages
...reflection may check the zeal of the headlong reformer. It is at any rate a tough old world. It has taken its trend and curvature and all its twists and...us. It bears with it now all the errors and follies 'FOLKWAYS, pp. 30, 33-34, 59, 97-98, 173-74, 521-22. of the past, the wreckage of all the philosophies,... | |
 | Robert Wilson Neal - 1921 - 424 pages
...of the social order. Those who are haunted by fear may get some cheer out of these words of Sumner: The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep...of all the philosophies, the fragments of all the civilization, the wisdom of all abandoned ethical systems, the debris of all the institutions, and... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1924 - 286 pages
...reflection may check the zeal of the headlong reformer. It is, at any rate, a tough old world. It has taken its trend and curvature and all its twists and...of all the institutions, and the 'penalties of all mistakes. It is only in imagination that we stand by and look at and criticize it and plan to change... | |
 | Arnold Marshall Rose - 1968 - 301 pages
...from Sumner, not from Myrdal (incidentally, Myrdal quoted the paragraph to disagree with it): Daly: "The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. ... Every one of us is a child of his age and cannot get out of it. He is in the stream and is swept... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 pages
...of centuries of gradual evolution, cannot be quickly refashioned by legislation."55 As Sumner wrote: The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. . . . Every one of us is a child of his age and cannot get out of it. He is in the stream and is swept... | |
 | Morton J. Horwitz - 1992 - 374 pages
...of centuries of gradual evolution, cannot be quickly refashioned by legislation."94 As Sumner wrote: The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. ... Every one of us is a child of his age and cannot get out of it. He is in the stream and is swept... | |
 | Richard Hofstadter - 1992 - 292 pages
...Society, the product of centuries of gradual evolution, cannot be quickly refashioned by legislation: The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. ... Every one of us is a child of his age and cannot get out of it, He is in the stream and is swept... | |
 | 1922 - 366 pages
...reflection may check the zeal of the headlong reformer. It is at any rate a tough old world. It has taken its trend and curvature and all its twists and...us. It bears with it now all the errors and follies •FOLKWAYS, pp. 30, 33-34, 59, 97-98, 173-74, 521-22. of the past, the wreckage of all the philosophies,... | |
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