Sublime

Tout ce qui donne quelque valeur à notre existence, dépend de la contrainte imposée aux actions d’autrui. Donc quelques règles de conduite doivent être imposées par la loi d’abord, et puis par l’opinion pour beaucoup de choses sur lesquelles l’action de la loi ne peut s’exercer. Ce que doivent être ces règles, voilà la principale question dans les

In regard to the state of nature, Locke was less original than Hobbes, who regarded it as one in which there was war of all against all, and life was nasty, brutish, and short. But Hobbes was reputed an atheist. The view of the state of nature and of natural law which Locke accepted from his predecessors cannot be freed from its theological basis;

His really sound and essential conception of Liberty, “Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes,” is as good a definition of Liberalism as has been uttered in poetry in the Liberal century.

I saw more of Lyell than of any other man, both before and after my marriage. His mind was characterised, as it appeared to me, by clearness, caution, sound judgment, and a good deal of originality. When I made any remark to him on Geology, he never rested until he saw the whole case clearly, and often made me see it more clearly than I had done be

John Smith, U.S.A.” He went on to develop his view of himself in some detail: He is the man who doesn’t know much, nor thinks that he knows much. He starts out with certain ambitions but he gradually accumulates obligations as he goes along, and they continually increase. They begin with his inherited family, and grow with the family that results f

Marsiglio of Padua (1270-1342), on the contrary, inaugurated the new form of opposition to the Pope, in which the Emperor has mainly a role of decorative dignity.

les écrits de Herbert Spencer, l’homme qui a marqué de l’empreinte de son génie tout le champ de la recherche scientifique et de la pensée modernes, le père de la psychologie, l’homme qui a révolutionné la pédagogie, au point que le fils du paysan français apprend à lire, à écrire et à compter selon les principes qu’il a énoncés.