 In sober truth, whatever homage may be professed, or even paid, to real or supposed mental superiority, the general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages,...  The Christian Examiner - Page 141863Full view - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the middle ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...render mediocrity the — ~* ascendant power among mankind} In ancient history, in the middle ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition...high social position, he was a considerable power, ,f^t present individuals are lost in the crowd. In . -INJ politics it is almost a triviality to say... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...: diocrity the ascendant power among mankind. j In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in ---A a diminishing degree through the long transition from...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...render* me- j diocrity the ascendant power among mankind.) In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition...if he .. had either great talents or a high social posi-// tion, he was a considerable power. At present ~ individuals are lost in the crowd. In politics... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instinctsof masses.... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1874 - 672 pages
...in his essay ' On Liberty , there are many words worth remembering, and amongst them are these : ' In politics it is almost a triviality to say that...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organs of the tendencies and instincts of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, and in a diminishing degree through the long transition...the crowd. In politics it is almost a triviality to Bay that public opinion now rules the world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...themselves into practice. 2158 Mencius : \Yorhs. Bk. iv. Pt. i. Ch. 1, Sec. 3. (Legge, Translator.) In politics it is almost a triviality to say that...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...into practice. 2158 Menciua : Works. Bk. iv. Pt. i. Ch. 1, Sec. 3. (Le99e, Translator.) In polities it is almost a triviality to say that public opinion...world. The only power deserving the name is that of masses and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. In ancient history, in the Middle Ages, northern army encamped on Ле Rhine or the Xeres....without restraint in such » rare and expensive luxury, masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of... | |
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