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Stran 399 - As in a country of liberty every man who is supposed a free agent ought to be his own governor, the legislative power should reside in the whole body of the People. But since this is impossible in large States, it is fit the People should transact by their representatives what they cannot transact by themselves."—Montesquieu.
Stran 106 - Intellectual Development of Europe. Chapter V. DEMOCRACY: AUTHORITIES. " To make the People fittest to choose the chosen, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education. Noble Education, in all liberal arts and exercises, . . . communicating the natural heat of Government and culture more distributively to all extreme
Stran 269 - cursed by the domination of religion over religion/' and (p. 181), dilates on " the most instructive fact that the years during which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy was in its zenith, were precisely the years during which national virtue was at the lowest point.
Stran 129 - controlling power in the last resort is vested in the entire aggregate of the community. ... It is both more favorable to present good Government, and promotes a better and higher form of national character than any other polity whatsoever.
Stran 124 - Good education and accurate wisdom ought to correct the fluxible fault, if any such be, of our watry situation. To make the People fittest to choose the chosen, and the chosen fittest to govern will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education."—Milton, ibid., p.
Stran xxi - Two elements enter into our enquiry. The first the idea of spirit; the second, the complex of human passions; the one the warp, the other the woof of the vast arras web of universal history. The concrete mean and union of the two is liberty under the conditions of morality in a State."—Hegel.
Stran 291 - We must vindicate,—what ? new things ? No! Our ancient legal and vital liberties, reinforcing the laws enacted by our ancestors, by setting such a stamp upon them that no licentious spirit shall dare henceforth to violate them."—Sir Thomas Wentworth, " Pari. Hist.," 11. " Bitter jest, that the most civilised portion of the globe should be considered incapable of self-Government."—
Stran 124 - the justest Government, the most agreeable to all due liberty and proportioned equality, both human, civil, and Christian, most cherishing to virtue and true religion, but also plainly commended, or rather enjoined by our Saviour himself."—Milton, " Ready and easy way to establish a free Commonwealth,
Stran 396 - It is an unquestionable and most instructive fact that the years during which the political power of the Anglican hierarchy was in the zenith, were precisely the years during which national virtue was at the lowest point."—Macaulay's England,