 | Arthur Knatchbull Connell - 1880 - 162 pages
...vTrdpxovrd T€ ff&faiv Kal einyvtovtu KO.I tpytf oiiSe Tavayxtua QiKtaHcu.' — THUCYDIDES. • ' As a rule, a stationary state is by far the most frequent...state is only a rare and an occasional exception.' BAGEHOT. 'Alle Verhaltnisse zwischen den Einzeln haben nur Werth, sofern sie Verhaltnisse zwischen... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1880 - 1000 pages
...advance ceases. The entire evidence of history goes to show that, so far from this being the case, " a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition of man," and progression the " rare and occasional exception." The degree of development in all living beings,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1881 - 286 pages
...common ; but, in fact, any progress is extremely rare. As a rule (and as has been insisted on before) a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception. Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress ; else there... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 608 pages
...common ; but in fact any progress is extremely rare. As a rule (and as has been insisted on before), a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception. Before history began, there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress, else there... | |
 | William Douglas Mackenzie - 1897 - 264 pages
...Jevons's form of statement, the late Walter Bagehot's words in his essay on " Verifiable Progress ": — " A stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception." Worfcs(American ed.) Vol. IV, pp. 583. exact essence of man's progress. Mr. Spencer's essay does not... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 pages
...common; but, in fact, any progress is extremely rare. As a rule (and as has been insisted on before) a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception. Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress; else there could... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 pages
...common; but, in fact, any progress is extremely rare. As a rule (and as has been insisted on before) a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception. Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress; else there could... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1903 - 432 pages
...and to constitute society in order to supply these needs. Bagehot, Physics and Politics, p. 211: " Any progress is extremely rare. As a rule a stationary...condition; the progressive state is only a rare and occasional exception." Ratzel, The History of Mankind, i., pp. 3-4, says: " As for historical considerations,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1915 - 272 pages
...common ; but, in fact, any progress is extremely rare. As a rule (and as has been insisted on before) a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition...state is only a rare and an occasional exception. Before history began there must have been in the nation which writes it much progress ; else there... | |
 | Frederick John Teggart - 1916 - 244 pages
...fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see. " . . . " But, in fact, any progress is extremely rare. As a...state is only a rare and an occasional exception." "This principle will, I think, help us in trying to solve the question why so few nations have progressed,... | |
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As a rule (and as has been insisted on before), a stationary state is by far the most frequent condition of man, as far as history describes that condition; the progressive state is only a rare and an occasional exception. 
