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...whom they would surely , if they could have done so, have imparted their own political wisdom; but no one ever heard that these sons of theirs were re... ...he higher one of science, in the spirit of one who desires to include in his philosophy every aspect of human life; just as he recognizes the existenc... ...t of the affinities of nature (ate tes thuseos oles suggenous ouses). Modern philosophy says that all things in nature are de pendent on one another;... ...Laches, to the transcendentalism of Plato, who, in the sec ond stage of his philosophy , sought to find the nature of knowledge in a prior and future... ...s silent about them. This is the spirit of idealism, which in the history of philosophy has had many names and taken many forms, and has in a measure ... ...le of explanation. And yet, if there are no universal ideas, what becomes of philosophy? (Parmenides.) In the Sophist the theory of ideas is spoken of... ... is knowledge, has been set aside, and cannot be supposed to be our guide in political life. MENO: I think not. SOCRATES: And therefore not by any wis...

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...ent. It was once fashionable—and that not a very long time ago—to speak of political society with a certain distaste, as a necessary evil, an irritati... ... in- structive as it would be difficult to count the errors it has bred in political thinking. As a matter of fact, men have never dreamed of wishing ... ...e attainment of the highest and most enjoy- able things man is capable of. Political society, the life of men in states, is an abiding natural relatio... ...hristianity has liberated the world, not as a sys- tem of ethics, not as a philosophy of altruism, but by its revelation of the power of pure and unse... ...o http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm T o return to the Great Political Documents Page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ docum...

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...therto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theo... ...l of a rough journey; as if, forsaking the gold- mines of finance and that political slaughter of fat oxen whereby a man himself grows fat, they were ... ...nd how our mercantile greatness, and invaluable Constitution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture an... ...sh culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this, not Philosophy of Clothes, but recognition even that we have no such Philosophy... ...st months, did the above very plain considerations, on our total want of a Philosophy of Clothes, occur to him; and then, by quite foreign sugges- tio... ... and will exalt the almost new name of Teufelsdrockh to the first ranks of Philosophy, in our Ger- man Temple of Honor.” Mindful of old friendship, th... ... of our Friend we detected any practical tendency whatever, it was at most Political, and towards a certain prospective, and for the present quite spe... ...may engulf us! Teufelsdrockh undertakes no less than to expound the moral, political, even reli- gious Influences of Clothes; he undertakes to make ma... ...Tables of Sines and Tangents, Codification, and Treatises of what you call Political Economy, are the Meal? And what is that Science, which the scient...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...tera- ture: nor is there any subdivision of the work in which the severest philosophy is not invested with the grace of poetry, and the driest statist... ...hink that in no country in the civilized world is less atten- tion paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Ameri- cans have no philosophical... ...ding alone. America is therefore one of the coun- tries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best a... ...enth century, Bacon in the natural sciences, and Descartes in the study of philosophy in the strict sense of the term, abolished recognized formulas, ...

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..., nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equal- ity of the white and black races; that I am not, nor ever ... ...e will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do re... ...man, or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men. I recollect of but one distinguis... ...t understand that there is any place where an alteration of the social and political relations of the negro and the white man can be made, except in t... ...y the Compromise of 1850, when it was settled “forever “ as both the great political 20 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four parties declared i... ..., I assure you I will quit before they have half done so. But where is the philosophy or statesmanship which assumes that you can quiet that disturbin... ...serious danger that has threat- ened our institutions,—I say, where is the philosophy or the 79 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Four statesmans... ...ting, that we are to care nothing about it! I ask you if it is not a false philosophy. Is it not a false states- manship that undertakes to build up a...

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...e lines of the war news, diplomatic disputations, threats and accusations, political wranglings and stories of hardship and cruelty that now fill our ... ...e sufficiently occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the se... ...Is Coming? it means that there lies ahead a period of extreme economic and political dislocation. The credit system has been strained, and will be str... ...a “ha’p’orth the worse.” And their creditors have found a balm in time and philosophy. Bankruptcy is only painful and destructive to small people and ... ...hed for “flying in the face of Providence,” but for “flying in the face of Political Economy.” In that state of freedom you got whatever you could in ... ... that they know their course is unsound. The fundamental error of orthodox political economy and of Marxian socialism is to assume the inveterate self... ...at never get from “exercises” to practice. There is a pretence of studying philosophy based on Greek texts that few of the teachers and none of the ta... ...on. But the essence of the higher education is now, as it always has been, philosophy; not the antiquated pretence of “reading” Plato and Aristotle, b... ...ly, surely , and exactly . For that we want less debating society and more philosophy, fewer prizes for forensic ability and more for strength and vig...

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...hington, a prestige suffi- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. ... ...fused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are ... ... no politi- cal power, as power is counted in the States. They vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no member to Cong... ...Parliament the House of Commons has greater po- litical strength and wider political action than the House of Lords; but in Congress the Senate counts... ...and rebellion, as Naples has lately succeeded in her attempt to change her political status; as Hungary is looking to do; as Poland has been seeking t... ...ever, gradually adopted the policy of Jefferson—his policy rather than his philosophy. 190 North America V ol. 2 tained the consent of the people, wa... ... up to the “Civilization.” As a rule, they are generally up to “Proverbial Philosophy,” and this, perhaps, may have had something to do with the great... ...you like our institutions, sir? Do you find that philan- thropy, religion, philosophy and the social virtues are cul- tivated on a scale commensurate ...

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...order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it di... ...not already a little interested and open- minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will f... ... that must presently de- 17 H G Wells velop sight, and form, and power, a philosophy in which this assumption is denied.* All through this Utopian ex... ... article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his book a rude sketch of a philosophy upon new lines, originally read by me to the Oxford Phil. Soc. i... ... has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- g... ...e managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decidedly to the conclusion that ... ...red to be subordinate and subsequent to this general science of Sociology. Political economy and economics, in our world now, consist of a hope- less ... ...isure, in a good moral and intellectual atmosphere, come experiments, come philosophy and the new departures. In any modern Utopia there must be many ... ...re great journals of thought and speculation, mature and splendid books of philosophy and science, and a glorious fabric of literature will be woven a...

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...pers, foreign as well as French; he had really mastered a good deal of the political religion of a French publicist. It is curious to read, sixty year... ...ellaneous writ- ings—reviews (including puffs), comic or general sketches, political diatribes, “physiologies” and the like—which, with his discarded ... ...es The Lesser Bourgeoise 39 Balzac Scenes de la Vie Politique Scenes from Political Life Une T enebreuse Affaire The Gondreville Mystery An Historica... ... please the poet, the philosopher, and the masses who want both poetry and philosophy under strik- ing imagery? Though I could conceive of the importa... ...humanity stirs within their frame, which often covers a complete system of philosophy. Thus Walter Scott raised to the dignity of the philosophy of Hi... ...ecome absolute, every one will feel that a brief preface ought not to be a political treatise. I cannot, therefore, enter on religious discussions, no... ... treatise. I cannot, therefore, enter on religious discussions, nor on the political discussions of the day. I write under the light of two eternal tr...

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...tic comedy. He certainly inspired that fine genius. 10 An Essay on Comedy Politically it is accounted a misfortune for France that her nobles thronge... ...s built on it, which is hopeful so far; but to enjoy it, to enter into the philosophy of the Broad Grin, that seems to hesitate between the skull and ... ...te of dense cohesion, very desirable in the estimation of the statesman. A political Aristophanes, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, wa... ...s, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, was found too much for political Athens. I would not ask to have him revived, but that the sharp l... ...He had the Comic poet’s gift of common-sense—which does not always include political intelligence; yet his political tendency raised him above the Old... ...te, as he calls himself, was a Titanic pamphleteer, using laughter for his political weapon; a laughter without scruple, the laughter of Hercules. He ... ...n anti-social position, which is directly opposed to the Comic; and in his philosophy, judged by philosophers, he is a comic figure, by reason of this... ...They are kings in music, we may say princes in poetry, good speculators in philosophy, and our leaders in scholarship. That so gifted a race, possesse...

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... wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. ... ...mately known to every man engaged in the hard practical work of Ameri- can political life. It is difficult to overstate how much it means to a nation ... ...s an interesting distinction between the qualities needed for a successful political career in mod- ern society and those which lead to eminence in th... ...s,—satire the rustic wit of which was not always fit for ears polite. Also political thoughts he put upon paper, and some of his pieces were even deem... ...e State government from V andalia to Springfield; one of those triumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’... ...mpathetic kindness in his heart. His main ambition was confessedly that of political distinc- tion; but hardly any one would at that time have seen in... ...that in this struggle against the spread of slavery he had right, justice, philosophy, the enlightened opinion of mankind, history, the Constitution, ...

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...ing occupies him. Jester and jolly fellow, he keeps on good terms with all political opinions, and is patriotic to the bottom of his soul. A capital m... ...ent piston of the steam-engine called Speculation. “Monsieur,” said a wise political economist, the director- cashier-manager and secretary-general of... ...nd, but only five francs if he got no more than five hundred. The cause of political journalism not interfering with the pre- accepted cause of life i... ... inclined in republican ideas,—the only ones, ac- cording to guadissardian philosophy , which could bring about a rational equality. Besides which he ... ... Press is neither a tool nor an article of barter: it is, viewed under its political aspects, an institution. We are bound, in virtue of our position ... ...re bound, in virtue of our position as legislators, to consider all things politically, and therefore” (here he stopped to get breath)—”and there- for...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...dow of change among its members. This is what the New Testament, a code of philosophy fertile in new ideas, first introduced under the name of scandal... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...te the objections, and then as briefly reply to them, by exposing the true philosophy of Milton’s practice. For we are very sure that, in doing as he ... ...he antagonist pole to the sin and misery of social man. Such is the covert philosophy which governs Milton’s prac- tice, and which might be illustrate... ... 1832 1832 H ISTORY IS SOMETIMES treated under the splendid conception of ‘philosophy teaching by example,’ and sometimes as an ‘old almanac;’ and, ag... ...onal temper in every stage of their growth; whilst the third abstracts the political or the ethical moral, and unfolds the philosophy which knits the ... ... simply on the ground of its limited extent; contending that in public and political transactions, such as compose the matter of history, human nature...

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... step further, I too am an exile. Office and leading are closed to me. The political career that promised so much for me is shattered and ended for ev... ...HER THER THER THER THER 1 1 1 1 1 I DREAMT FIRST of states and cities and political things when I was a little boy in knickerbockers. When I think of... ... and brush up, and she never seemed to understand anything whatever of the political Systems across which she came to me. Also she forbade all toys on... ... in conversation with me and anxious to inti- 44 The New Machiavelli mate political sympathy and support. I tried to make him talk of the Home Church... ...ence Tripos (as it was then), and three years later I got a lectureship in political science. In those days it was disguised in the cloak of Political... ...impossible to develop a new college system with strong faculties in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and... ...whom he waged a fierce obscure war… . It was Codger’s function to teach me philosophy, philoso- phy! the intimate wisdom of things. He dealt in a vari... ...t isn’t a very curable difference,—once people have grown up. Theirs was a philosophy devoid of finesse. T emperamentally the Baileys were specialised... ... pupil. In the life of the individual it takes the role that the growth of philosophy, science, and creative literature may play in the development of...

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...sing through the towns of Italy by night, as a serviceable scheme for some political purpose, either of avoid- ing too much to publish his motions, or... ...nder the shadow of the great Dictator’s displeasure; not person- ally, but politically, on account of her connections: and her it was, Cornelia, the d... ...t of his ambition, and contracted from first to last in the service of his political intrigues, for raising and maintaining a power- ful body of parti... ...ount, as from a stepping-stone, to the inheritance of the Julian power and political station; and the Roman people 41 Thomas de Quincey would have be... ...f, the finishing, or ceremonial acts, were yet wanting in this process—the political heirship was inchoate and imperfect. Tacitly understood, indeed, ... ...h the brutal—are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart. Of this philosophy the Romans had, by the ne... ... other men, was the station from which the Roman speculators took up their philosophy of human nature. Tried by such standard, Mark Anthony would be f... ... mind; and at eleven years of age he professed himself a formal devotee of philosophy in its strictest form,—assum- ing the garb, and submitting to it... ... fill important situations, he raised to the highest offices in the State. Philosophy, how- ever, did not so much absorb his affections, but that he f...

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...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political ... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...d from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century... ...gy. And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except through political partisanship? But such partisanship connects itself naturally wit... ...n sect a peculiar denomination are also those which record its hon- orable political conflicts; so that his own connection, through his religious brot... ...anch of study, the points are so many at which theol- ogy inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self-prom... ...o some new mode of hope- ful existence, through intercourse with religious philosophy. What vast revolutions (vast for the individual) within how narr...

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... the muddle was at its very worst, the church was con- fronted by enormous political opportunities. In order that it should seize these one chief thin... ...matter of our personalities in space and time. Human analysis probing with philosophy and science towards the V eiled Being reveals nothing of God, re... ... in which, writing as one without authority or specialisation in logic and philosophy, as an ordinary man vividly interested, for others in a like cas... ...hanges. When he comes from his own world of modern biology to religion and philosophy he goes back in time. He attacks religion as he understood it wh... ..., after all the flat repudiations that have preceded it of “religion” and “philosophy” as remedies for human ills, is nothing less than the fundamenta... ...ate the modern outlook on life. Certainly modern culture—science, history, philosophy, and art—finds no purpose in life: that is to say, no purpose et... ...MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION 1. MODERN RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RE... ... RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION A POLITICAL RELIGION T HE CONCEPTION of a young and energetic God, an Invisib... ...for promot- ing and watching education; associations for the discussion of political problems and the determination of right policies. In all these wa...

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... the pavement. We have not to ask what he judged. But Dorset Wilmers was a political opponent of the eminent Peer who yields the second name to the sc... ...e it a possible attempt, before our systems shall have been forti- fied by philosophy. Then may it be allowed to the Diarist simply to relate, and we ... ...estly transcriptive. Rose-pink and dirty drab will alike have passed away. Philosophy is the foe of both, and their silly cancelling contest, perpetua... ...ral flesh, smother no longer the soul issuing out of our incessant strife. Philosophy bids 15 George Meredith us to see that we are not so pretty as ... ...ble, fructifying, finally a delight. Do but perceive that we are coming to philosophy, the stride toward it will be a giant’s —a century a day. And im... ...end bore such reminders meekly. They were read- ers of books of all sorts, political, philosophical, economical, romantic; and they mixed the diverse ... ...aloof, and actually supposed she was a contemplative, simply specu- lative political spirit, impersonal albeit a woman. This, as Emma, smiling at the ... ...e; not a parlous boiling. Weak as we may be in our domestic cook- ery, our political has been sagaciously adjusted as yet to catch the ardours of the ... ...was changed in thinking it possible that a woman could divert him from his political and social interests. He looked incredulous. ‘You have heard of a...

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...e had not, because he happened to produce his works in a troubled epoch of political and social strife, when the best men were absorbed in other inter... ...hed in French the first vindication of Russian revolution. Whilst studying philosophy in the Berlin University, T urgenev paid short visits to his unc... ...ame time one of the strongest—perhaps the strongest—and most clear-sighted political thinkers of his time. However surpris- ing such a versatility may... ...ately, with those of the acknowledged leaders and spokesmen of the various political parties of his day, including Alexander Hertzen him- self. T urge... ... what an exquisite butterfly! pray look at it!——more strictly speaking, in political economy. He has written an essay on some very interesting questio... ...n, and wants to submit it to Darya Mihailovna’s criticism.’ ‘An article on political economy?’ ‘From the literary point of view, Alexandra Pavlovna, f... ...d Rudin was thor- oughly imbued with German poetry, German romanticism and philosophy, and he drew her after him into these forbid- den lands. Unimagi... ... simplicity!’ ‘But tell me, my dear fellow,’ asked Volintsev, ‘what is it, philosophy or what?’ ‘How can I tell you? On one side it is philosophy, I d... ... something altogether different It is not right to put every folly down to philosophy.’ 87 Turgenev Volintsev looked at him. ‘Wasn’t he lying then, d...

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... any serious degree (supposing such degree of it to be), by observation or philosophy; for that, probably, his nature, by its opposition, imperfectly ... ... such a confederation might, perhaps, be attended with as happy results as politically attended that of the states. 38 The Confidence-Man Upon his hi... ... to his stumps by fortune, could be ever thrown off the legs of a laughing philosophy. Foiled again, the good merchant would not desist, but ven- ture... ...ved a steady, hard-working man, a cooper by trade. One evening I went to a political meeting in the Park—for you must know, I was in those days a grea... ... sequel may show, not less acquainted, in a Spar- tan way of his own, with philosophy and books, than with wood-craft and rifles. He must have overhea... ...ed on strictly philosophi- cal and physio—” “Look you—come up here—how, by philosophy or physi- ology either, make good boys to order? Come up here. D... ...mportant argument, much more in evolving the grand central forces of a new philosophy of boys, as I may say, surely you will kindly allow scope ad- eq...