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" He professes to have read some of the speculations on the future improvement of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary, but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable him to believe what he... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 364
1817
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 17

1817 - 626 pages
...of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary ; but he had uot acquired that command over his understanding which would enable...confessedly disadvantageous, the author cannot have been surprised at the slow and reluctant assent which his principles have obtained. He has a prejudice to...
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Parallel Chapters from the First and Second Editions of An Essay on the ...

Thomas Robert Malthus - 1894 - 166 pages
...of society, in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary; but he has not acquired that command over his understanding, which would enable...might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence. The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue; but he feels conscious, that he has...
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Notes on Politics & History: A University Address

John Morley - 1914 - 130 pages
...no r temper to find plans for the future improvement of society visionary. " But he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable...might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence." This is the temper that we may expect to see grow up and spread in universities. value of Our present...
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Population

Harold Wright - 1923 - 198 pages
...in sympathy for the ideals which accompanied the French Kevolution, had not, he said, - i " acquired that command over his understanding, ; which would enable him to believe what he wishes, i without evidence, or to refuse his assent to what might ( i be unpleasing, when accompanied with...
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Free-thought in the Social Sciences

John Atkinson Hobson - 1926 - 298 pages
...existing order of things."1 It is fair to add that Malthus himself claimed that " he had not acquired that command over his understanding, which would enable him to believe what he wished, without evidence, or to refuse his assent to what might be unpleasing, when unaccompanied by...
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Free-thought in the Social Sciences

John Atkinson Hobson - 1926 - 296 pages
...existing order of things."1 It is fair to add that Malthus himself claimed that " he had not acquired that command over his understanding, which would enable him to believe what he wished, without evidence, or to refuse his assent to what might be unpleasing, when unaccompanied by...
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Population: The First Essay

Thomas Robert Malthus - 1959 - 164 pages
...improvement of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary, but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable...might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence. The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious, that he has...
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Population Crisis: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session, Part 1

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures - 1966 - 1386 pages
...of society, in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary ; but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable...might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence. The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue; but he feels conscious, that he has...
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Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders

Don Herzog - 2000 - 580 pages
...of society, in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary; but he has not acquired that command over his understanding which would enable...to what might be unpleasing, when accompanied with evidence."197 No fantasies permitted. I won't attempt a reconstruction of the infamous argument of...
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics

Michael Lewis - 2007 - 1476 pages
...improvement of society in a temper very different from a wish to find them visionary, but he has not acquired he whole. The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has...
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