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 3641817Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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