I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type... The North American Review - Pàgina 4081848Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1900 - 400 pàgines
...isolated from his broad view of social amelioration — his socialistic view in which he says that he is "not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those...elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which from the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the... | |
| 1900 - 576 pàgines
...aspect, and its excesses are a favourite subject of moral denunciation. Mr. Mill, among others, is " not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those...of human beings is that of struggling to get on." " The best state for human nature," on the contrary, in his opinion, "is that in which, while no one... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1900 - 542 pàgines
...If we are unable to grow richer, is the loss of wealth so great a misfortune? He turns to think of the 'trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...each other's heels which form the existing type of human life.'8 Is such a state desirable ? In America, where all privileges are abolished, poverty unknown,... | |
| William Warrand Carlile - 1901 - 416 pàgines
...aspect, and its excesses are a favourite subject of moral denunciation. Mr. Mill, among others, is " not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those...of human beings is that of struggling to get on." " The best state for human nature," on the contrary, in his opinion, " is that in which, while no one... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pàgines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. erant lea, Or the mist anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. It may be a necessary... | |
| Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami - 1903 - 258 pàgines
...isolated from his broad view of social amelioration—his socialistic view in which he says that he is " not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those...elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which from the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1906 - 626 pàgines
...Stationary State, says, "While minds are coarse they require coarse stimuli, and let them have them. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the tramping, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social... | |
| Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener, Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1906 - 650 pàgines
...who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the tramping, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,...social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind." Whether or not we agree with Mill's view that this competition is only a transitory phase of industrial... | |
| National Federation of Religious Liberals (U.S.). Congress - 1909 - 308 pàgines
...that is rather the field of the conquests of democracy. — Matthew Arnold. I confess I am not at all charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who...each other's heels, which form the existing type of human life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1076 pàgines
...be, on the whole, a very considerahle improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not chirm* with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normil sW of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trample crushing, elbowing, and... | |
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