 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
 | José Míguez Bonino - 1997 - 176 pàgines
...not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human life is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling,...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.24 As a result,... | |
 | Mark Blaug - 1997 - 756 pàgines
...conditions as the coming of the day of judgement. 'I am not charmed', Mill remarks, 'with the idea of life held out by those who think that the normal...of human beings is that of struggling to get on'. American readers will note the comments on America in the first edition, which Mill later struck out... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 516 pàgines
...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. It may be a necessary... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 444 pàgines
...economic growth. In Mill's own emphatic words, in the chapter on "The Stationary State" in the Principles, I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...type of social life, are the most desirable lot of mankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.16 In... | |
 | Larry Elliott, Dan Atkinson - 1998 - 332 pàgines
...war but a harbinger of the ideas propounded by Keynes and Beveridge a century later. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heads, which form the existing type... | |
 | Joseph Hamburger - 2001 - 260 pàgines
...of the Labouring Classes." In the first of these he implicitly condemned self-seeking by criticizing "the ideal of life held out by those who think that...social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind"; and in describing the northern and middle 1 Autobiography, CW, 1, 245, 247. : Diary, 25 January 1 1... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 2011 - 373 pàgines
...life a necessary vent for the energies of mankind. "I confess," he wrote, "I am not charmed with an ideal of life held out by those who think that the...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." But a distaste... | |
 | April Laskey Aerni, KimMarie McGoldrick - 1999 - 274 pàgines
...before the hippies or their gurus or even before modern psychologists were born. In 1857 Mill wrote: "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. ... There would be ... as much room for improving the Art of Living and much more likelihood of its... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - 2000 - 268 pàgines
...subsequent economists or associated solely with a discredited Marxism, Mill is worth quoting at length: 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. It may be a necessary... | |
 | D. Stephen Long - 2000 - 321 pàgines
...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...elbowing, and treading on each other's heels which forms the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the... | |
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