 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1834 - 484 páginas
...surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. The tone of thought common among us, all GUI hopes, fears, and speculations, would be materially...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, ani distorted into the most surprising forms, by the... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 476 páginas
...human life. It ia indisputable thas much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved...them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 476 páginas
...particular desire that its civil institutions should be improved since the moment when ex-, ternal completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record There has been a material civilisation, but instead of the civilisation expanding the law, the law... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1864 - 484 páginas
...if we had vividly before us the relation of the progressive races to the totality of human life. Ft is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind...another; here and there a primitive code, pretending to supernatural origin, has been greatly extended, am distorted into the most surprising forms, by the... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1874 - 452 páginas
...or at all events of compassing objects other than those which were aimed at in the primitive times. It may seem at first sight that no general propositions...pretending to a supernatural origin, has been greatly extendedr and distorted into the most surprising forms, by the perversity of sacerdotal commentators... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - 1886 - 628 páginas
...Law, that " the stationary condition of the human race is the rule, the progressive, the exception. It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...them by their embodiment in some permanent record " The first of the cases above mentioned to which I wish to call your attention in this connection... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 páginas
...electric telegraphs, or democratic governments. In spite of overwhelming evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...extended and dis-torted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1885 - 324 páginas
...electric telegraphs, or democratic governments. In spite of overwhelming evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...extended and distorted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 páginas
...mankind has never shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, proved, since the moment when external completeness was first...extended and distorted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 páginas
...mankind has neT«r shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, proved, since the moment when external completeness was first...superseded by another ; here and there a primitive code, protending to a snperuatural origin, has been greatly extended and distorted into the most surprising... | |
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world. The tone of thought common... 
