Democracy and Social Growth in America: Four LecturesG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 129 strani |
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Stran 18 - The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and artistic finish to Thomas Lord Erskine.
Stran 23 - ... equality of material conditions to inequality of material conditions as a characteristic feature of progress under freedom, particularly as it appears in industrial society . . . whether the government interferes in behalf of individuals, or simply stands for order the outcome of industrial development will be essentially the same in both cases, and that an increasing inequality.85 To mitigate this dismal trend Moses could offer only the inculcation of a strong religious faith and an "awakening...
Stran 26 - It means, for the strong few, wealth, power, and a fuller experience; it means, for the weak many, lives burned out by an electric current they are unable to bear.
Stran 38 - ... classes. The resulting agitation, however, in the context of American material prosperity and of what was known about social development, was a symbol of progress. Strife was a. manifestation of the natural and evolutionary competition that resulted in higher states of society and human relations. With every step forward, whether in the case of an individual, or of a class, or of society at large, there are revealed attractive positions still further on; and it is the view of these more attractive...