 Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.  The Church Herald - Page 2301869Full view - About this book
 | Norman Egbert Richardson, Ormond Eros Loomis - Boy Scouts - 1915 - 510 pages
...model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it; but a tree, which requires to grow and develop on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." This important truth is the key-note of Boy Scout training. Not what is forced upon a boy from the... | |
 | Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes - Great Britain - 1916 - 268 pages
...Mill in his essay, On Liberty. "Human nature," he there writes, "is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...develop itself on all sides according to the tendency or inward forces which make it a living thing." l But he unjustifiably limits the function of the State... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - Mental discipline - 1917 - 450 pages
...development." John Stuart Mill, in comment, said : " Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." And now, in all our work, it is best to remember that life is not a judgment to drudgery. It is a glory,... | |
 | United States - 1917 - 712 pages
...or of society clearly requires it. "Human nature," says Mill, "is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." Human nature is so constituted that we freely tolerate in ourselves what we condemn in others, and... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1917 - 984 pages
...of society clearly requires it. " Human nature," says Mill, " is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to t grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it... | |
 | Norman Angell - Draft - 1919 - 60 pages
...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...the inward forces which make it a living thing."— Mill's "Liberty," p. 34 (Edition 1913). ment in political matters. Because upon that capacity for private... | |
 | Norman Angell - Labor - 1919 - 360 pages
...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." — Mill's " Liberty," p. 34 (Edition 1913). [287] regulation — in order to make a large population... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1921 - 84 pages
...specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is ' not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which require*. to grow and develop itself on all sidesT^ according to the tendency of the inward forces... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1922 - 260 pages
...the community and the individual good. Mill said "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...according to the tendency of the inward forces, which makes it a living thing." The function of the law is "to secure to each the greatest amount of liberty... | |
 | Education - 1922 - 668 pages
...much to the point when he says, "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires...grow and develop itself on all sides, according to tendencies of the inward forces which make it a living thing." Hence in relation to education our attitude... | |
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