 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 392 pages
...in Mr. Spencer an unqualified rejection of this view. " Ideas," he tells us in a striking passage, " do not govern and overthrow the world ; the world...guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally upon opinions, but almost wholly upon character." Refusing as he did, to recognize in his philosophy... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Literary Collections - 1885 - 53 pages
...et morale des socie'te's actuelles tient, en derniere analyse, a 1'anarchie intellectuelle." P. 48.* Ideas do not govern and overthrow the world : the...guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally upon opinions ; but almost wholly upon character. Not intellectual anarchy, but moral antagonism, is... | |
 | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - Logic - 1885 - 200 pages
...prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Newton. Ideas do not govern and overthrow the world; the world...by feelings, to which ideas serve only as guides. Spencer. Man is not a praotical creature merly; be has within him a speculative tendency, a pleasure... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 182 pages
...— " Ideas do not ppvern and overthrow the world: the world is governed or overthrown by feeling?, to which ideas serve only as guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally upon opinions, but almost wholly upon character. Not intellectual anarchy, but moral antagonism, is... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1888 - 242 pages
...wilfulness ; ' evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart.' As Herbert Spencer says, ' the world is governed or overthrown by feelings to which ideas serve only as guides ; ' ' and the lack of imagination, which is itself largely due to defective training of the intellect,... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - 1889 - 423 pages
...NOTE 3, p. 27.—LAW I. The authority of Mr. Herbert Spencer may be cited against this law. He says, "Ideas do not govern and overthrow the world: the...guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally upon opinions; but almost wholly upon character." (" Classification of the Sciences" p. 37.) But Mr.... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1895 - 565 pages
...Intellect at one time the servant and at another the regulator of Feeling ; l Spencer insists that " the world is governed or overthrown by feelings, to which ideas serve only as guides "2 (as if the guides were not thus admittedly the determining factors), and yet explains that " the... | |
 | Thomas Samuel Hastings - 1904 - 266 pages
...Character is far more rare and far more precious than talent. Herbert Spencer says: Ideas do not govern the world; the world is governed or overthrown by...guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally npon opinions, but almost wholly upon character. (" Classification of the Sciences.") We need, as we... | |
 | Walter Thomas Mills - 1904 - 640 pages
...stated by Mr. Spencer in the following passage: 'Ideas do not govern the world; the world is governed by feelings, to which ideas serve only as guides. The social mechanism does not rest finally upon opinions; but almost wholly upon character. * * * All social phenomena are produced by the 'totality... | |
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Ideas do not govern and overthrow the world : the world is governed or overthrown by feelings, to which ideas serve only as guides. 
