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Page ii
... he feels that he is beginning to have a greater command of his subject ; but he is obliged to make an end . He may perhaps claim to know better than any one else the deficiencies of his own performance ; but he knows also that ii PREFACE .
... he feels that he is beginning to have a greater command of his subject ; but he is obliged to make an end . He may perhaps claim to know better than any one else the deficiencies of his own performance ; but he knows also that ii PREFACE .
Page vi
... better than imaginary certainties . Yet the uncertainty in this instance is one of which the human mind is peculiarly impatient . For amid so much repetition and confusion great truths are constantly appearing which reflect the mind of ...
... better than imaginary certainties . Yet the uncertainty in this instance is one of which the human mind is peculiarly impatient . For amid so much repetition and confusion great truths are constantly appearing which reflect the mind of ...
Page xii
... Better opinion , better confirmation : ' they have acquired authority from age and use . But there are other truths of ancient political philosophy which we have forgotten , or which have degenerated into truisms . Like the memories of ...
... Better opinion , better confirmation : ' they have acquired authority from age and use . But there are other truths of ancient political philosophy which we have forgotten , or which have degenerated into truisms . Like the memories of ...
Page xvi
... better the work . A ruling principle runs through the whole of nature and is dis- cernible even in things without ... better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or ...
... better the work . A ruling principle runs through the whole of nature and is dis- cernible even in things without ... better and better off than wild ones . For this rule of the superior by nature is the preservation of the subject or ...
Page xxx
... better from one point of view that there should be a permanent division of labour and that the same persons should always rule . But where there is a natural equality and not enough offices for all the citizens , the continuance of one ...
... better from one point of view that there should be a permanent division of labour and that the same persons should always rule . But where there is a natural equality and not enough offices for all the citizens , the continuance of one ...
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Page lxxiii - For as we have many members In one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.
Page 5 - A social instinct is implanted in all men by nature, and yet he who first founded the state was the greatest of benefactors. For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all...
Page 86 - For the many, of whom each individual is but an ordinary person, when they meet together may very likely be better than the few good, if regarded not individually but collectively, just as a feast to which many contribute is better than a dinner provided out of a single purse.
Page 9 - It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right.
Page 215 - Clearly then the best limit of the population of a state is the largest number which suffices for the purposes of life, and can be taken in at a single view.
Page 244 - ... looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all.
Page 3 - When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite selfsufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Page 4 - Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either above humanity, or below it; he is the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one...
Page 7 - But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule, and others be ruled is a thing, not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
Page 8 - Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.