 | Patrick Murray - 1997 - 510 strani
...whatever was more than would supply the conveniencies of life to be had there for him and his family. 49. Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and...so than that is now; for no such thing as money was any where known. Find out something that hath the use and value of money amongst his neighbours, you... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1997 - 330 strani
...Locke's Treatise of Civil Government— though here we are reaching the limit. His famous sentence, "In the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now, "4° shows that the ideal state of nature can still be placed in America, but that the appeal to imagination... | |
 | Joshua Foa Dienstag - 1997 - 292 strani
...time-bound vocabulary. It is in this light, I think, that we should consider that famous sentence, "In the beginning all the World was America and more so than that is now" (2T 49). This curious turn of phrase, often noted but little analyzed, has been construed either to... | |
 | Donald Denoon - 2004 - 544 strani
...philosopher of the seventeenth century,1 asserted a stage theory of development when he argued that 'in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than it is now'. He also advanced a justification for empire: 'God gave the world to men in Common, but... | |
 | David Forte - 1998 - 428 strani
...is civil society, tends to raise the lot of all. Common Law and Locke in American Constitutionalism "In the beginning all the World was America, and more so than that is now," Locke wrote. It is hard for the commentator to resist spinning this sentence around into something... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 strani
...presupposes a state of affairs in which there is plenty of land for everybody, as in the America of his day. 'In the beginning all the world was America, and more so than it is now; for no such thing as money was anywhere known.'4 It is clear that Locke assumes that there... | |
 | Richard Epstein - 2000 - 438 strani
...was more than would supply the Conveniencies of Life to be had there for him and his i5 Family. 49. Thus in the beginning all the World was America, and...so than that is now; for no such thing as Money was any where known. Find out something that hath the 'Vse and Value of Money amongst his Neighbours, you... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 2000 - 267 strani
...Locke's Treatises of Civil Government — though here we are reaching the limit. His famous sentence, "In the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now, " shows that the ideal state of nature can still be placed in America, but that the appeal to imagination... | |
 | Sanford E. Marovitz, A. K. Christodoulou, Athanasios C. Christodoulou - 2001 - 630 strani
...which is now controlled by money, was once according to Locke "wild woods and uncultivated wast [sic]": "Thus in the beginning all the World was America,...so than that is now; for no such thing as Money was any where known" (294, 301). In his posture, Bartleby therefore repudiates the narrator's servility... | |
 | Sheldon S. Wolin - 2001 - 664 strani
...describing the nature of property and the value that labor creates in working the land, he remarked that "in the beginning all the World was America, and more...so than that is now; for no such thing as Money was any where known."39 America would serve as the setting for a new civilization that was all nature and... | |
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Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; for no such thing as money was anywhere known. 
