 That any character — from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened — may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means, which are to a great extent at the command and under the control,...  The United States Literary Gazette - Page 601824Full view - About this book
 | Neal Riemer, Douglas Simon, Douglas W. Simon - 1997 - 508 pages
...cardinal premise of his social philosophy was the right environment. "Any general character," he wrote, "from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant...even to the world at large, by the application of the proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily... | |
 | Donald E. Pitzer - 1997 - 564 pages
..."'effected a complete change in the general character of the village,'" and thus proposed the axiom '"Any character, from the best to the worst, from the most...given to any community, even to the world at large.'" Quoted in Bestor, Backwoods Utopias, 67. On the workings of the developmental process in the Owenite... | |
 | Oliver Leaman - 1998 - 196 pages
...existentialists in the Nietzschean tradition disclaim such characteristics. But when Owen wrote that 'Any character, from the best to the worst, from the most...given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means; which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily... | |
 | Oliver Leaman - 1998 - 196 pages
...enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means; which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily made so, of those who possess the government of nations' (1963: 14), it is clear from the... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2002 - 448 pages
...socialistic belief in human malleability (and could have been written by Wallace half a century later): "Any character, from the best to the worst, from the most...given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means; which are to a great extent at the command and under the controul [sic], or... | |
 | Ian L. Donnachie, Carmen Lavin - 2004 - 400 pages
...Principles [Original Dedication of First Essay. Omitted in subsequent Editions. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE ESQ., MP "Any general character, from the best to the worst,...great extent at the command and under the control of whose [sic] who have influence in the affairs of men." to According to the last returns under the Population... | |
 | Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian - 2004 - 352 pages
...from French sources. In his New View of Society, published in 1816, he laid down the principle that 'any general character, from the best to the worst,...even to the world at large, by the application of the proper means: which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 454 pages
...held as coming from him. His principles, besides, must stand upon their own foundation. He says, "That any general character, from the best to the worst,...of proper means; which means are to a great extent under the command and at the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men."163 He says,... | |
 | Alan Ertl - 2007 - 467 pages
...both intellectually profound and also eloquent, expressing faith in the plastic nature of humanity. 20 "Any general character from the best to the worst,...of proper means; which means are to a great extent under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men." 2 ' 18.2.2 Karl Marx Karl Marx... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1817 - 656 pages
...It' appears, that after long and attentive examination of human nature, Mr O. has discovered that ' any general character, from the best to the ' worst,...enlightened, may ' be given to any community, even lo the world at large, by ' the application of proper means, which means are, to a great ' extent,... | |
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