 | Political science - 1913 - 756 pages
...legislation and in government: "Government is not made," said Burke, "in virtue of natural rights .... government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants." Laws are not made to be symmetrical but to protect and elevate mankind. As Emerson puts it, "But the... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...By having a right to everything they want everything. Governmenl is a contrivance of human wisdom tc ther day upon a [130 level with them, now exalted...sympathy what they felt in common with them before. oi civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not [90 only that... | |
 | Norman Foerster, John Marcellus Steadman - English language - 1919 - 136 pages
...the final value of action, like that of books, and better than books, is that it is a resource. 8. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. ' -<*-"-'' -j^-.^-B. Of the following sentences, determine which are periodic, which are virtually... | |
 | Ernest Scott - Philosophy - 1920 - 370 pages
...form. — Lord Halifax. What is necessary to govern men? The free consent of the peoples. — Voltaire. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Burke. Responsible government is simply a means of securing that the Executive can control the... | |
 | Telephone - 1921 - 646 pages
...vacation as a succession of folds, gatherings, tucks, and pressings, ending with a wonderful binding." ^ Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. — Burke. • Pacific • icle-pinono • Washington Division Division Headquarters — Seattle Division... | |
 | Nathaniel Micklem, Herbert Morgan - Christian sociology - 1921 - 300 pages
...other words, is increasing our real freedom " (pp. 73-75). Much the same is the contention of Burke : " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. . . . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint... | |
 | Nathaniel Micklem, Herbert Morgan - Christian sociology - 1921 - 260 pages
...other words, is increasing our real freedom " (pp. 73-75). Much the same is the contention of Burke : " Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. . . . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - Political science - 1926 - 458 pages
...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything, they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. SOCIETY AND RESTRAINT OF PASSIONS 303 Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society,... | |
 | Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - Quotations - 1927 - 994 pages
...compromise and barter. 3277. Individuate pass like shadows; but thè commonwealth is fixed and stable. 3278. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men nave a tight that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 3281. Définition d'un gouvernement... | |
 | Crime - 1940 - 496 pages
...cause his rearrest, and thereupon may impose such sentence as it had authority to pass originally. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...Men have a right that these wants should be provided by this wisdom. — EDMUND BURKE AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW Reviewed by JOHN F. LANDIS THE JOURNAL... | |
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. 
