...continue poisoning themselves and their descendants by over-indulgence in alcoholic drink ? 4 Surely " the defective natures of citizens will show themselves...in the bad acting of whatever social structure they 1 Sir Oliver Lodge, Public Service v. Private Expenditure, p. 11. 3 Blatohford, Not Guilty, p. 37....

...if the native virtue is lacking or imperfect, no State-created conditions can supply the defect. " There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts " ; and in man, as we know him, we must recognise the presence of the baser metal. 1 We must remember...

...regeneration of the individuals who compose the community, that, in the language of Herbert Spencer, "there is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden motives," and that the Government, in its attempt to provide the proper external conditions of stable...

...must remember that, after all, their primary concern is not government but righteousness; and that "there is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts." * Such alchemy must be spiritual, if it exists at all. To summarize this part of our study: we have...

...dreams. — Upanishads. The finest culture comes from the study of men in their best moods. — Plutarch. There is no political alchemy by which you can get...conduct out of leaden instincts. — Herbert Spencer. To think is to live. — Cicero. THE WORLD OF THOUGHT WITH EDITORIAL COMMENT UNAVOIDABLE DELAYS Owing...

...regeneration of the individuals who compose the community, that, in the language of Herbert Spencer, " there is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden motives," and that the Government, in its attempt to provide the proper external conditions of stable...

...ill-working humanity may be framed into well-working institutions. It is a delusion. The defective nature of citizens will show themselves in the bad acting...golden conduct out of leaden instincts."— Herbert Spencer's " The Man versus the State," p. 43. CHAPTER III THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ANARCHIST...

...needful are such spiritualistic utterances as Lowell's, when we recall the words of Spencer, that " there is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts." These latter must be spiritualised. It cannot, then, be denied that Lowell, in his poetry, has sometimes...

...• but the crop is scant and very uncertain. On the whole, the words of Herbert Spencer hold good: "There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts." l Jesus finally presents, as a convenient summary of the law of love, a practical maxim that should...

...consequently be modified and improved by individual effort, notwithstanding Herbert Spencer's sage remark that "there is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts." The most fundamental instinct is that which is known as the instinct of self-preservation. That little...