 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1861 - 432 sayfa
...that have elsewhere had effect. The truth is that the stiibk part of our mental, moral, and physical I constitution is the largest part of it, and the resistance...variations of human society in a portion of the world are pjain enough, they are neither so rapid nor so extensive that their amount, character, and general... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1863 - 460 sayfa
...unverifiable, condition of the race. Their authors differed as to the characteristics of the pra>social state, and as to the nature of the abnormal action...knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that it is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1867 - 494 sayfa
...Montesquieu. Many of the anomalies which he r parades have since been shown to rest on false rej ports or erroneous construction, and of those which ' remain...character, and general direction cannot be ascertained/ Approximation to truth may be all that is attamable with our present knowledge, but there is no reason... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1870 - 434 sayfa
...made for those modifying causes which are noticed in the Esprit des Lois; but their number and then' force appear to have been overestimated by Montesquieu....knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that it is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - 1872 - 476 sayfa
...sympathies of hia neighbours." — Hitt. Greece, ip 608 ; comp. infra, ch. zi. " "Ancient Law," p. 117. human society in a portion of the world are plain...neither so rapid nor so extensive that their amount of character and general direction cannot be ascertained." This establishes a presumption, at any rate,... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1864 - 484 sayfa
...of older stages of the race which have obsti uately defied the influences that have elsewhere ha 3 effect. The truth is that the stable part of our mental,...character, and general direction cannot be ascertained. Approximation to truth may be all that is attainable with our present knowledge, but there is no reason... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1876 - 442 sayfa
...who flourished at the revival of ancient letters Grotius and his successors invested them not more with brilliancy and plausibility than with practical...knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that it is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1887 - 462 sayfa
...permanence rather than the variableness of man's nature, since they are relics of older stages of tho race which have obstinately defied the influences...knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that it is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1888 - 466 sayfa
...noticed that, amidst the vast variety of examples which, in its immense width of survey, it «weeps together from supposed systems of jurisprudence, there...knowledge, but there is no reason for thinking that it is so remote, or (what is the same thing) that it requires so much future correction, as to be entirely... | |
 | Sir Henry Sumner Maine - 1888 - 512 sayfa
...elsewhere ha .1 , wur. v. MONTESQUIEU AND BENTHAM. 118 effect. The truth is that the stable part of oni mental, moral, and physical constitution is the largest...character, and general direction cannot be ascertained. Approximation to truth may be all that is attainable with our present knowledge, but there is no reason... | |
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And here no doubt lies the error which vitiates his system as a system. He greatly underrates the stability of human nature. He pays little or no regard to the inherited qualities of the race, those qualities which each generation receives from its predecessors,... 
