I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type... Proceedings - Sida 277efter Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| 1848 - 788 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
| 1848 - 798 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 590 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the VOL. ii. 27 most... | |
| 1848 - 544 sidor
...life, though true in some respects, is overcharged in others, and is unfaithful because incomplete. " I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
| 1848 - 802 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...think that the normal state of human beings is that of straggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 588 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
| 1853 - 802 sidor
...nothing more. " I confess I am not charmed," says one of the soundest and strongest of modern writers,* " with the ideal of life held out by those who think...get on ;' that the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
| 1853 - 798 sidor
...nothing more. " I confess I am not charmed," says one of the soundest and strongest of modern writers,* "with the ideal of life held out by those who think...human beings is that of struggling to ' get on ;' that tho trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 sidor
...used to be. You may remember the sarcastic lines of Ebenezer Elliott, the " Corn Law Rhymer " : — What is a communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal...elbowing, and * Labour Annual, 1897, p. 392. f P- 395. J p. 415. \\Political Economy, bk. IV, oh. vi, §2; and see bk. II, oh. 1, §3, arid his articles in... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable... | |
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