 | Henry Sumner Maine - India - 1871 - 284 pages
...they assume to be dictated by a sense of equity ; there is always, I am assured, a sort of tiction, under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have existed from all antiquity, although in fact no artificial supply had been even so much as thought... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 pages
...India has in many cases made new and great works of irrigation, of which no ancient Indian Government ever thought; and it has generally left it to the...a rule which is obligatory, but not traditional." l Now among the European Aryans, within historic times, this species of artifice assumed a form which... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1874 - 540 pages
...not on grounds of innocence and sanctity ; nor do they assume to be dictated by a sense of eqiiity ; there is always, I am assured, a sort of fiction under...a rule which is obligatory, but not traditional." l Now among the European Aryans, within historic times, this species of artifice assumed a form which... | |
 | John Fiske - Evolution - 1875 - 538 pages
...India has in many cases made new and great works of irrigation, of which no ancient Indian Government ever thought; and it has generally left it to the...a rule which is obligatory, but not traditional." 1 Now among the European Aryans, within historic times, this species of artifice assumed a form which... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Citizenship - 1881 - 286 pages
...India has in many cases made new and great works of irrigation, of which no ancient Indian Government ever thought ; and it has generally left it to the...this ancient race — like, probably, in this respect ?o much of the ancient world — find it to imagine a rule which is obligatory, but not traditional.... | |
 | William Robertson Smith - Bible - 1881 - 494 pages
...do not purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors ; there is always a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have existed from all antiquity, although, in fact, no artificial supply had been even so much as thought... | |
 | 1881 - 654 pages
...do not purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors ; there is always a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have existed from all antiquity, although, in fact, no artificial supply had been even so much as thought... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - Bible - 1893 - 330 pages
...do not purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors ; there is always a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have existed from all antiquity, although, in fact, no artificial supply had been so much as thought of.'... | |
 | Religion - 1893 - 804 pages
...do not purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors ; there is always a sort of fiction under which some customs as to the distribution of water are supposed to have existed from all antiquity, although, in fact, no artificial supply had been even so much as thought... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 476 pages
...India has in many cases made new and great works of irrigation, of which no ancient Indian Government ever thought ; and it has generally left it to the...imagine a rule which is obligatory, but not traditional. The ready formation of custom-making groups in early society must have been greatly helped by the easy... | |
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But the peculiarity is that in no case do these rules " purport to emanate from the personal authority of their author or authors, which rests on grounds of reason not on grounds of innocence and sanctity ; nor do they assume to be dictated by a sense... 
