Principles of Western CivilisationMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1902 - 518 pages |
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... hands are apparent which mark how profoundly the dim prescience of the significance of the position which has been reached in Western thought has begun to affect the party which has thus so directly represented in the past the causes ...
... hands are apparent which mark how profoundly the dim prescience of the significance of the position which has been reached in Western thought has begun to affect the party which has thus so directly represented in the past the causes ...
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... hand , as expressed through the modern movement of enfranchisement , has been , as we are now beginning to understand , to break this hitherto universal ascen- dency of the present . And the process of social evolution in which this end ...
... hand , as expressed through the modern movement of enfranchisement , has been , as we are now beginning to understand , to break this hitherto universal ascen- dency of the present . And the process of social evolution in which this end ...
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... hand of labour , absorbed ( as it was inevitable they should be ) in the problem of material production , and with no fruitful view of the position and functions of the state " ( Political Science Quarterly , vol . xiv . pp . 82 , 83 ) ...
... hand of labour , absorbed ( as it was inevitable they should be ) in the problem of material production , and with no fruitful view of the position and functions of the state " ( Political Science Quarterly , vol . xiv . pp . 82 , 83 ) ...
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... hands of private fortunes tending to equal in capital amount the annual revenue of first - class States are all features of a state of society in which , under the characteristic economic activities of the modern world , we see the ...
... hands of private fortunes tending to equal in capital amount the annual revenue of first - class States are all features of a state of society in which , under the characteristic economic activities of the modern world , we see the ...
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... hands of Charles Darwin , remains in all its main features unshaken . It has survived , practically without serious challenge , the criticisms to which it has been subjected . And yet it has been already overlaid by a meaning which ...
... hands of Charles Darwin , remains in all its main features unshaken . It has survived , practically without serious challenge , the criticisms to which it has been subjected . And yet it has been already overlaid by a meaning which ...
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absolute amongst Ancestor Worship ancient civilisations ancient world antithesis ascendency become beginning cause century chap chapter characteristic Church civil competition conception conflict controlling Democracy destined doctrine economic process efficiency empire endeavour England epoch Ethics Europe evolutionary process evolutionist expression fact forces forms fundamental future gradually Greek hitherto human evolution human mind Ibid ideal ideas influence inherent interests J. S. Mill John Stuart Mill labour laissez-faire last resort limits of political Manchester school meaning ment military modern world moral movement Natural Selection organisation Origin of Species past perceived period phase phenomena philosophy political consciousness position present prevailing progress race reached realise regarded religion represented result Roman significance Sir Frederick Pollock slowly Social Democracy social evolution society spectacle Spencer spirit stage struggle subordination tendency tending theory throughout tion ultimate utilitarian W. J. Ashley Western history Western world whole