Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest... Industrial Liberty - Page 22by John Milton Bonham - 1888 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1895 - 792 pages
...harmonious whole that challenges our admiration. Humboldt says that "the aim of every man should be the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." As Jean Paul Richter puts it, "to make as much out of one's self as could be made out of the stuff."... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...from the outside. I think we may all agree with Humboldt that the aim of man should be to secure " the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" or, as we said in the first chapter, " to make the most of himself." This is the specific work of civilization,... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm C.K.F. freiherr von Humboldt - 1854 - 274 pages
...HIGHEST ENDS OP HIS EXISTENCE. THE true end of Man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by...of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes... | |
| 1855 - 1130 pages
...chapter, where the author, after a brief description of the true end of man — which he defines to be 'the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ' — points out the necessity of perfect freedom in order to the attainment of this end, and establishes... | |
| 1859 - 782 pages
...Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the...and consistent whole;' that, therefore, the object 'towards •which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts, and on which especially those... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards... | |
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards... | |
| James Heywood - 1860 - 362 pages
...Government, by Wilhelm von Humboklt, in which the eminent Prussian politician expresses his opinion, that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the...complete and consistent whole;" that therefore the object towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts, and on which especially those... | |
| 1860 - 446 pages
...spontaneity of conduct — is so little valued ; that few even comprehend William Humboldfs dictum, " the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that " the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the...and consistent whole ; " that, therefore, the object " towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts, and on which especially those... | |
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