 Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense which has just been given to it, we may say that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable...  The Works of Walter Bagehot ... - Стр. 582авторы: Walter Bagehot - 1891Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 470
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 884
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - Страниц: 850
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Страниц: 552
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - Страниц: 668
...forget that the country of wliich we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish '. to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles hare often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1874 - Страниц: 742
...(Tauchnitz, vol. 1., cap. iii. i. when he is considering the gradual development of civilisation : — "In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - Страниц: 738
...never forget that the country of which we read was a very different country from that in which we live. In every experimental science there is a tendency...towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - Страниц: 286
...hard problems. This is the maxim of scientific humility so often insisted on by the highest enquirers that, in investigations, as in life, those ' who exalt...principles operating everywhere and always, might well have Tbeen expected to '1 * carry mankind rapidly forward.' Indeed, taking verifiable progress in the sense... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - Страниц: 480
...which all those who come upon it will use and value. Unless some kind of abstraction like this is made in the subject the great problem " What causes progress?...that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - Страниц: 476
...which all those who come upon it will use and value. Unless some kind of abstraction like this is made in the subject the great problem " What causes progress?...that nature gives a prize to every single step in it. Everyone that makes an invention that benefits himself or those around him, is likely to be more comfortable... | |
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