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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...good government, as all healthy existence, is the balance of opposites and the marriage; of contraries; and that the more mettlesome the charger the more need of a firm rein and a cautious rider. He who overlooks this prime postulate of all sane action in this complex world may pile his democratic house tier above tier and enjoy his green conceit for a season; but the day of sore trial and civic storm is not far, when the rain shall descend, and the floods come, and the winds blow and beat upon that house, and it will fall, because it was founded upon a dream. II. THE CHURCH. Ov ffas o Aryan/ fioi JZvpie, Kvpie, eloeXevo-eTai a's Trjv fiaxriXeiav Tuv ovpavtov dXX 6 miSv To 6eXrp.a Tov jraT/ods fiov Tov iv Tois ovpavois.--'O SflTHP. Man is characteristically a religious animal; in fact, as Socrates teaches, the only religious animal;1 for, though a dog has no doubt reverential emotions, it cannot be said with any propriety that he has religious ideas or ecclesiastical institutions, for a very good reason, because he has no ideas at all: observation he has very keen, and memory also wonderfully retentive; instincts also, like all primal vital forces, divine and miraculous; but ideas 1 Twos yap aXXov frpov frvxl puna ptv detnv Thv To. piyutta nai K&xxutto. oDVTa avTOv yo-dr/Tai Oti kti: Tt 8 (pvXov aXXo ri avdpwiroi deovs depaircvovoi.--Xen. Mem. i. 4. certainly none, for ideas mean knowledge; and brutes that have no language properly so called that is a system of significant vocal signs expressive of ideas, but only cries, gesticulations, and visible or audible signs expressive of sensations and feelings, can by no law of natural analogy be credited with the possession of a faculty of which they give no manifestation....


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217420396
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217420397
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 59 gr


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