 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1899 - 476 Seiten
...character suitable to war and conquest. Conquest improved mankind by the intermixture of strength; the armed truce, which was then called peace, improved...all civilization. The answer is that there are very advantages — some small and some great — every one of which tends to make the nation which has... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 480 Seiten
...character suitable to war and conquest. Conquest improved mankind by the intermixture of strength ; the armed truce, which was then called peace, improved...all civilization. The answer is that there are very advantages — some small and some great — every one of which tends to make the nation which has... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1906 - 250 Seiten
...unsuccessful, of each race to get more military; and so the art of war has constantly improved. \ I Butrwhy is one nation stronger than another ? In the answer...believe, lies the key to the principal progress of early civilisation, and to some of the progress of all civilisation. The answer is that there are very many... | |
 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - 1923 - 504 Seiten
...to prevail; and the most attractive, though with exceptions, is what we call the best character." " "But why is one nation stronger than another? In the...and to some of the progress of all civilization." 28 " 'There is,' it has been said, 'hardly any exaggerating the difference betwten civilized and uncivilized... | |
 | Jesse William Sprowls - 1927 - 292 Seiten
...and the strong groups are responsible for progress. These are mechanisms external to the individual. But why is one nation stronger than another? In the...believe, lies the key to the principal progress of early civilisation, and to some of the progress of all civilisation . The answer is that there are very many... | |
 | Gabriel Herman - 2006 - 415 Seiten
...weaker; sometimes even subduing it, but always prevailing over it ... Conquest improved mankind . . . But why is one nation stronger than another? In the...believe, lies the key to the principal progress of early civilisation, and to some of the progress of all civilisation. The answer is that there are very many... | |
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Conquest improved mankind by the intermixture of strength; the armed truce, which was then called peace, improved them by the competition of training and the consequent creation of new power. Since the long-headed men first drove the short-headed men... 