 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 sayfa
...mankind has neT«r shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, proved, since the moment when external completeness was first...superseded by another ; here and there a primitive code, protending to a snperuatural origin, has been greatly extended and distorted into the most surprising... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 292 sayfa
...evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe to bringthoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which...extended and distorted into the most surprising forms ; but, except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual L/amelioration... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1886 - 318 sayfa
...electric telegraphs, or democratic governments. In spite of overwhelming evidence (I wrote in 1861), it is most difficult for a citizen of Western Europe...their embodiment in some permanent record. One set of usasres has occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded by another ; here and there a primitive... | |
 | Henry Sumner Maine - 1887 - 484 sayfa
...certain, that with their code they were exempt from the very chance of so unhappy a destiny. pn CHAPTER II. LEGAL FICTIONS. WHEN primitive law has once been...completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in Borne permanent record. One set of usages has occaeionally been violently overthrown and superseded... | |
 | 1875 - 800 sayfa
...truth that the civilization which surrounds him is a rare exception in the historv of the world. ... It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...them by their embodiment in some permanent record." Again, it is a point upon which, I suppose, it may be said, historians are agreed, that, even in Europe... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1895 - 596 sayfa
...suggested later (see below, p. 410), but it is given without any reference to the original problem. improved since the moment when external completeness...them by their embodiment in some permanent record. . . . Except in a small section of the world, there has been nothing like the gradual amelioration... | |
 | John McAuley Palmer - 1899 - 850 sayfa
...advocates of those more enlightened methods which are demanded by an enlightened age. Maine says : It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...when external completeness was first given to them by permanent record. One set of usages hai occasionally been violently overthrown and superseded by another;... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1901 - 504 sayfa
...upright a law. But now, when all this is at a discount, it is well to remember with Sir Henry Maine: — "It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...when external completeness was first given to them by embodiment in some permanent record."1 " To the fact that the enthusiasm for change is comparatively... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1901 - 496 sayfa
...a law. But now, when all this is at a discount, it is well to remember with Sir Henry Maine : — " It is indisputable that much the greatest part of...when external completeness was first given to them by embodiment in some permanent record."2 " To the fact that the enthusiasm for change is comparatively... | |
 | Benjamin Kidd - 1902 - 556 sayfa
...are but the expression of tendencies that have always existed in the world. But, as Maine insists, "it is indisputable that much the greatest part of...them by their embodiment in some permanent record. " 1 It has only been, in short, a cause more elemental than itself that has overcome that unrelenting... | |
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It is indisputable that much the greatest part of mankind has never shown a particle of desire that its civil institutions should be improved, since the moment when external completeness was first given to them by their embodiment in some permanent record. 
