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 | Michael W. Spicer - Political Science - 1995 - 138 pages
...the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born" (97). He further suggested that "we are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals... | |
 | Great Britain - 1991 - 616 pages
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 | Charles W. Dunn, J. David Woodard - Political Science - 1996 - 212 pages
...in that country. He found human reason puny compared with the traditions established by providence: "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
 | Larry May, Jerome Kohn - Philosophy - 1996 - 414 pages
..."tradition" or "practice" a similar sense of being joined with others rather than (to quote Burke) putting men "to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason,"44 but the difference of emphasis is significant, as we shall see. Another respect in which... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - History - 1997 - 476 pages
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them.61 We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
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