Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social ScienceJohn W. Parker, 1874 The volume for 1886 is a report of the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886." |
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Page 534 - Goschen has employed in another connection: " a chaos as regards authorities, a chaos as regards rates and a worse chaos than all as regards areas.
Page 363 - The princess thought, that of all sublunary things knowledge was the best: she desired first to learn all sciences, and then proposed to found a college of learned women, in which she would preside, that, by conversing with the old, and educating the young, she might divide her time between the acquisition and communication of wisdom, and raise up for the next age models of prudence, and patterns of piety.
Page 664 - HYGIENE is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.
Page 113 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
Page 102 - that the deaths which occur in this country are fully a third more numerous than they would be if our existing knowledge of the chief causes of disease were reasonably well applied throughout the country ; that of deaths, which in this sense may be called preventable, the average yearly number in England and Wales is about 120,000...
Page 62 - As I believe that India stands more in need of a code than any other country in the world, I believe also that there is no country on which that great benefit can more easily be conferred. A code is almost the only blessing, perhaps it is the only blessing, which absolute governments are better fitted to confer on a nation than popular governments.
Page 72 - We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
Page 295 - The policy of thus giving a bad name to industry, the parent of wealth and population, and setting it up as a scarecrow to frighten criminals with, is what I must confess I cannot enter into the spirit of. I can see no use in making it either odious or infamous.
Page 221 - Thirdly, it is provided that when the parties do not otherwise agree, they shall appoint five members of a joint high commission, who shall meet, discuss the differences, and endeavor to reconcile them. If the reconciliation thus sought fail nevertheless, a high tribunal of arbitration is to be appointed in this manner — each nation joining in the code transmitting to the parties in...
Page 118 - No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night and then carefully locked up, the register of crimes might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things ? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.