 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 - Pągina 4081848Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - 1993 - 334 pągines
...competition is over, the new period could begin: I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of a human life held out by those who think that the normal state...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.33 In the stagnating... | |
 | Howard Dickman - 1993 - 300 pągines
...enervated. He was shaped by Calvinism and had a "narrow theory of life" (265). Such persons thought "that the normal state of human beings is that of...of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind."46 Not surprisingly, he called the English "a remarkably stupid people";47 and America, by extension,... | |
 | Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli - 1994 - 236 pągines
...doctrine of free labor. On the one hand, writes Mill, a "stationary state of capital" is preferable to "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels, which form the existing type of social life." On the other hand, this deplorable spectacle of a humanity divided against itself is "a necessary stage... | |
 | Wouter van Dieren - 1995 - 356 pągines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress . . . should have... | |
 | Elizabeth Gaskell - 1996 - 500 pągines
...Darwin's Origin of Species (1859). The idea provoked scorn from a few such as John Stuart Mill, who wrote: 'I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ... trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels' (Principles of Political Economy,... | |
 | John Gray - 1993 - 224 pągines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggh'ng to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels which... | |
 | Lewis S. Feuer - 524 pągines
...state as too remote to enter the sociological purview, Mill avowed himself frankly as not charmed by 'the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...other's heels, which form the existing type of social life.'42 He wanted solitude and the preservation of natural beauty. To Marx who wrote of 'the idiocy... | |
 | John Gowdy - 2020 - 214 pągines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing,... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 1996 - 376 pągines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. . . . That the... | |
 | Julian L. Simon - 258 pągines
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...and treading on each other's heels, which form the existence type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable... | |
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