 ... together, making them do much the same things, telling them what to expect of each other, — fashioning them alike and keeping them so: what this rule is, does not matter so much. A good rule is better than a bad one, but any rule is better than...  Appletons' Journal - Page 211873Full view - About this book
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 286 lehte
...than a bad one, but any rule is better than none ; while, for reasons which a jurist will appreciate, none can be very good. But to gain that rule, what...polity are incomparably more important than its useful eleinents. How to get the obedience of men is the hard problem ; what you do with that obedience is... | |
 | William Douglas Mackenzie - 1897 - 264 lehte
...Kidd's form of statement what Bagehot says when speaking of law as "the primary want of mankind " — " To gain that obedience, the primary condition is the identity — not the union, but the sameness — Whatever may be the defects of Mr. Benjamin Kidd's definition of religion or of his curious, but... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 538 lehte
...than a bad one, but any rule is better than none; while, for reasons which a jurist will appreciate, none can be very good. But to gain that rule, what may be called the H impressive " elements of a polity are incomparably more important than its useful elements. How to... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1906 - 250 lehte
...than a bad one, but any rule is better than none; while, for reasons which a jurist will appreciate, none can be very good. But to gain that rule, what...gain that obedience, the primary condition is the identity—not the union, but the sameness—of what we now call Church and State. Dr. Arnold, fresh... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 698 lehte
...than a bad one, but any rule is better than none; while, for reasons which a jurist will appreciate, none can be very good. But to gain that rule, what...sameness — of what we now call "church" and "state." . . . No division of power is then endurable without clanger, probably without destruction: the priest... | |
 | 1922 - 320 lehte
...March 21st, 1922. TRUTH AND NON-VIOLENCE. " How to get obedience of man is hard problem; what are to do with that obedience is less critical. To gain that...the primary condition is the identity, not the union that the sameness — of what we now call Church and State," Nowhere in Christendom has this problem... | |
 | Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 lehte
...does not matter so much. A good rule is better than a bad one, but any rule is better than none . . . How to get the obedience of men is the hard problem;...what you do with that obedience is less critical." If this is so, then to understand may well be to excuse. Otherwise, we must conclude, with Mumford... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1879 - 614 lehte
...this simple ancient community, it has been said by an instructive writer of the present day, that — How to get the obedience of men is the hard problem ; what you do with th at obedience is less critical. To gain that obedience, the primary condition is the identity —... | |
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