 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations - 1995 - 932 páginas
...also to keep pace -ith the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. — Thomas Jefferson (I) W ith the twentieth century drawing to a close, internal medicine has the... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 páginas
...keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the *A war of all against all. coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society...monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung... | |
 | Alexander Heard - 1995 - 404 páginas
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. . . . Let us ... [not] weakly believe that one generation is not as capable as another of taking care... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 páginas
...and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy." The social contract, to Jefferson, was not a historical abstraction; he thought it described the way... | |
 | Seyla Benhabib - 1996 - 388 páginas
...institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Letter to Kercheval. 14. Letter to James Madison, 1789. 15. As Jefferson suggested in his letter to... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 páginas
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. . . . Each generation is as independent of the one preceding as that was of all which had gone before.... | |
 | Josiah Ober, Charles Hedrick - 1996 - 490 páginas
...institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. ... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Letter to Kercheval, July 12, 1816. 16. "Paradoxical as it may sound," wrote Arendt (On Revolution,... | |
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We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. 
