 | 1873 - 800 páginas
...history did not begin till after they were gone. The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....the precise case with the whole family of arrested civiliza1 " Ethnological Society's Transactions," vol. iii., p. 187. tions. A large part, a very large... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1876 - 522 páginas
...statute, enthralled in the institutions which its own hands have made. " What is most evident," he says, " is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom ; not of making the first preservative habit,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1878 - 144 páginas
...stationary civilized. Says this author once more : " The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step...but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom ; not of making the first preservative habit,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 páginas
...history did not begin till after they were gone. The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilizations. A large part — a very large part — of the world seems to be ready to advance to... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 páginas
...history did not begin till after they were gone. The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilizations. A large part, a very large part, of the world seems to be ready to advance to something... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 páginas
...history did not begin till after they were gone. The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilizations. A large part, a very large part, of the world seems to be ready to advance to something... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - 1913 - 348 páginas
...useful and helpful variation. The group pressure upon its members becomes unreasonable and oppressive. "What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting...but of breaking through it, and reaching something better."27 « Ratzel, F. — .Inthropogrographie, vol. ii, p. 69O. '0 Sieroshevski, VL — Twelve Years... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - 1913 - 342 páginas
...useful and helpful variation. The group pressure upon its members becomes unreasonable and oppressive. "What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed lav/, but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a... | |
 | Edgar James Swift - 1914 - 280 páginas
...account of constant use. "The great difficulty which history records," says Walter Bagehot,* "is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but of getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom;... | |
 | 1918 - 736 páginas
...history did not begin till after they were gone. The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step....the precise case with the whole family of arrested civilizations. A large part, a very large part, of the world seems to be ready to advance to something... | |
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The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased... 
