The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral ScienceH. C. Baird, 1872 - 433 pages |
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Page vii
... nature and an example worthy to be followed by those around him ; or those alone which he holds in common with the beasts of the field , and which fit him for place among men whose rule of conduct exhibits itself in the robber ...
... nature and an example worthy to be followed by those around him ; or those alone which he holds in common with the beasts of the field , and which fit him for place among men whose rule of conduct exhibits itself in the robber ...
Page viii
... natural laws ; the value of land having been ascribed by all previous economists to causes widely different from those which gave value to its products . * * Till then , amid the many suggestions as to the " nature , measure , and ...
... natural laws ; the value of land having been ascribed by all previous economists to causes widely different from those which gave value to its products . * * Till then , amid the many suggestions as to the " nature , measure , and ...
Page xvii
... nature , master of himself , and prompt to unite with his fellow - men in all measures tending to thorough development of the highest faculties with which he and they had been endowed . Looking around , however , we see that throughout ...
... nature , master of himself , and prompt to unite with his fellow - men in all measures tending to thorough development of the highest faculties with which he and they had been endowed . Looking around , however , we see that throughout ...
Page xix
... natural arrangements for promoting advance in civilization ; and , that it is in clear defiance of nature's laws to interfere in any manner , whether by vaccination , by succoring of • when they apply to the parish will be told by the ...
... natural arrangements for promoting advance in civilization ; and , that it is in clear defiance of nature's laws to interfere in any manner , whether by vaccination , by succoring of • when they apply to the parish will be told by the ...
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... Nature , each to its own deity . These deities were invested with more than human power ; but they were also supposed capable of human passions , and subject to human capriciousness . As the uniformities of Nature came to be more ...
... Nature , each to its own deity . These deities were invested with more than human power ; but they were also supposed capable of human passions , and subject to human capriciousness . As the uniformities of Nature came to be more ...
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Page 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 48 - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of Philosophia prima...
Page xx - With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
Page 437 - AMOROUX, AND JOHNSON.— The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing Companion ? Forming a Complete Course of Mechanical Engineering and Architectural Drawing. From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Prof, of Design in the Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris,, and MM. Armengaud the younger, and Amoroux, Civil Engineers.
Page 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.