| 1874 - 600 páginas
...history shows, is only so learned. In rude places to this day one who says anything new is looked upon with suspicion, and is persecuted by opinion if not...upsetting'; it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded. Naturally, therefore, common men hate... | |
| 1878 - 818 páginas
...contest. In short, nations grow, progress, thrive, through the Id w of variation from inheritance. " One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea ; " the consolation is, that only in pain does progress get birth, and that the things born are, on... | |
| George Hawkins Pember - 1884 - 504 páginas
...force, you take that which is almost dearer than life itself. The late Walter Bagehot well remarked : ' One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." No, a wise dispensation would not thus afflict the race. It would work precisely as it is working.... | |
| Samuel Weil - 1893 - 300 páginas
...prepared for receiving new ideas. Men love fixed creeds, not only in theology, but in science likewise. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain..."upsetting;" it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 páginas
...anything to compare. Tolerance too is learned in discussion, and, as history shows, is only so learned. In all customary societies bigotry is the ruling principle....upsetting ; " it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 páginas
...anything to compare. Tolerance too is learned in discussion, and, as history shows, is only so learned. In all customary societies bigotry is the ruling principle....upsetting ; " it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs illfounded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
| Massachusetts - 1902 - 1258 páginas
...a great deal of trouble, for, as the late Walter Bagehot has said : " One of the greatest jmins of human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as the common people say, 'so upsetting'''. The newcomer is not a peaceable tenant of the mind but makes... | |
| Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 páginas
...to compare. Tolerance, too, is learned in discussion, and, as history shows, is only so learned. In all customary societies bigotry is the ruling principle...."upsetting"; it makes you think that, after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill founded ; it is certain that till now there... | |
| Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond - 1907 - 524 páginas
...Walter Bagehot says that the pain of a new idea is one of the greatest that man can suffer. " It is, as people say, so upsetting ; it makes you think that,...till now there was no place allotted in your mind to this new and startling inhabitant ; and now that it has conquered an entrance, you do not at once see... | |
| 1909 - 252 páginas
...We shall be glad to receive similar lists of words from other contributors. AGONY OF OUR OPPONENTS One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — 1869 BAGEHOT, Physics and Politics, p. 163. [ SEPTEMBER IMPRESSIV SILENCE Our circular No. 24,... | |
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