 When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim...  The Yale Review - Page 119edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 pages
...their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most despotic... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most despotic... | |
 | 636 pages
...their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is brought about, we shall find that as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, the governors have NOTHING TO SUPPORT THEM BUT OPINION. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most despotic... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 586 pages
...their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most .despotic... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1875 - 342 pages
...of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion.' — HIJME, Essays, Part I. 4 : Of the first Principles of Government. \i Upon consideration it will,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1875 - 362 pages
...of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion.'—HUME, Essays, Part I. 4: Of Ike first Principles of Government. Upon consideration it will,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...Hume says with profound truth in the fourth Y , On the First Principles of Government : — "As force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only that government is founded ; and this maxim extends to the most despotic... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1885 - 466 pages
...their " rulers. When we enquire by what means this " wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as Force is " always on the side of the governed, the governors "have nothing to support them but opinion. Qt is, "therefore, on opinion only__that government is " founded ;\ and this maxim extends to the most... | |
 | George Hugh Smith - 1887 - 430 pages
...of their rulers. When we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find that, as force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1889 - 466 pages
...rulers. When " we inquire by what means this wonder is effected, we Part I. " shall find, that, as Force is always on the side of the " governed, the governors have nothing to support " them but opinion. It is, therefore, on opinion only " that government is founded; and this maxim extends " to the most... | |
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