 To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country, and to mankind.  Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political - Page 254by Robert Walsh - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Baron, John Field, Tom Schuller - Political Science - 2000 - 322 pages
...stated that, To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle, the germ, as it were, of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind' (Burke 1987: 100). Time hasn't yet weathered our century... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...to Burke: To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...link in the series by which we proceed towards a love of our country, and to mankind.64 In a similar vein, Hamilton said: We love our families, more than... | |
 | Neil Colman McCabe - Law - 2002 - 376 pages
...he said: "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed to a love of our country, and to mankind."79 This sentiment may seem hopelessly naive. After all, we... | |
 | Don E. Eberly, Ryan Streeter - Philosophy - 2002 - 166 pages
...wrote that to "be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind."5 Burke and many of his eighteenth-century peers understood... | |
 | Martha Nussbaum - Political Science - 2002 - 172 pages
...this way: "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind." The key to moral education is to fuse the sentiments... | |
 | Alan Finlayson - Philosophy - 2003 - 696 pages
...Anchor, 1973): To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. (59) 13. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 326 pages
...Reflections: To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. (Reflections, 135) But, as is clear from this formulation, it by no means follows that our allegiances... | |
 | Stephen Gill - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 324 pages
...(1790): 'To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public...in the series by which we proceed towards a love to country and to mankind.'16 But the poem is also a 'conversation' in a different sense. By juxtaposing... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...of kind: To be attached to the sub-division, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public...link in the series by which we proceed towards a love of our country, and to mankind.43 He believed the germ of public affection began in the family. In... | |
 | Sankar Muthu - Philosophy - 2009 - 368 pages
...France that [t]o be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public...is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. . . .'' Kant was aware of the problems facing those who... | |
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