 Let men learn that a legislature is not " our God upon earth," though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary...  West American History - Page 29by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...governments as it once did those of monarchs.' Let men learn that a legislature is not " our God upon earth," though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the...at the best borrowed. Nay, indeed, have we not seen (p. 13) that government is essentially immoral ? Is it not the offspring of evil, bearing about it... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1868 - 544 pages
...governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that a legislature is not " our God upon earth," though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the...the best borrowed. N"ay, indeed, have we not seen (p. 24) that government is essentially immoral? Is it not the ofispring of evil, bearing about it all... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Social evolution - 1871 - 552 pages
...governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that a legislature is not " our God upon earth," though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the...from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them leani rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen,... | |
 | Elisha Mulford - Political science - 1877 - 446 pages
...Spencer is the most recent advocate of this theory, and presents it in its extremest shape. ' He says, " Nay, indeed, have we not seen that government is essentially immoral? Is it not the offspring of evil, hearing about it all the marks of its parentage? Does it not exist because crime exists? Is it not... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Social sciences - 1886 - 564 pages
...governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that a legislature is not " our God upon earth," though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the...to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an iastitution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.... | |
 | Adolf Robbert van de Laar - 1895 - 290 pages
...tot volslagen anarchie; SPENCER zelf geeft dit volkomen toe , waar hij zegt (Social Staties p. 230) ,/Nay , »indeed , have we not seen, that government...bearing about it all the marks of »its parentage ?" met verwijzing naar vorige bladzijden, waar hij betoogt, dat alle gezag feitelijk in strijd is met... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - Ecclesiastical law - 1911 - 808 pages
...of our legislators, and lighten equally our municipal codes. . . ture is not ' our God upon earth,' though by the authority they ascribe to it, and the...power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed." " Social Statics," chapter 19, section 2. In reference to the authority of the legislature in religious... | |
 | John Robertson Dunlap, Arthur Van Vlissingen, John M. Carmody - Engineering - 1891 - 904 pages
...governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it and the...power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed." (Social Statics, p. 229.) After a page or two devoted to pointing out the unavoidable 656 final abolition... | |
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