| Theo Surányi-Unger - 1923 - 418 strani
...one small people . . . it was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin". (Sm HENRY SUMMER MAINE : The Rede-Lecture of May 22, 1875, p. 38.) PLATO althergebrachten, orphischen... | |
| Lucy Shepard Crawford - 1924 - 212 strani
...calculus of probability during the centuries immediately preceding the period now under discussion. "Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." 1 To Aristotle, then, we must look for the first systematic account of the part played in the universe... | |
| Paul Carus - 1915 - 860 strani
...true, as a writer no less sober in his philosophy than eloquent in his language, has lately asserted, that 'except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin,' we are justified in regarding the point of contact between the Greek... | |
| 1902 - 574 strani
...: "To one small people it was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." To avoid the unfairness of judging a man too strictly by his motto let us look at the more detailed... | |
| College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1920 - 596 strani
..." To one small people it was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." His interest in Greek thought and philosophy steadily increased, and at the last he was honored by... | |
| 1910 - 536 strani
...one small people . . . it was given to create the principle of progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of nature nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin". Though not always recognized, the controlling principles of our art, literature and philosophy, as... | |
| 1903 - 690 strani
...one small people * * * * It was given to create the principle of Progress. That people was the Greek. Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. if I may. so call our literature or art, has the Greek influence been a living and potent force, and,... | |
| 1927 - 700 strani
...culture would necessarily loom large. For, as Sir Henry Maine remarked, if with some exaggeration, " except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." Hence it is not surprising that the section of the series devoted to Greece is to contain no less than... | |
| J. W. Burrow, Professor of Intellectual History J W Burrow - 1966 - 326 strani
...those which are non-progressive.'2 A similar outlook is reflected in perhaps his most famous dictum: 'Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in origin.'3 There could not be a more outspokenly 'diffusionist' statement. Civilization, for Maine,... | |
| 1903 - 1096 strani
...Maranatba is a Greek adjective qualifying the Greek substantive Anathema. When Sir Henry Maine said that 'except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin,' he is thought to have forgotten the Christian religion. But he might have replied, if the objection... | |
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