... right in the interests of the public welfare, and for the increase of the freedom of the people. Experience proves a very different thing. The history of mankind bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures... Reflections of a Russian Statesman - Page 27by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - 1898 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - Church and state - 1898 - 460 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great States — was inspired by secret aims to the centralisation of po-.ver, or... | |
| Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev - Church and state - 1898 - 298 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...contrary, the extension of the representative principle is accomi *ajT/» f & * \ t '!>' . .'".i;/ -'7 :; •Jt*f- * i .'i >r< \ panied by an abasement of political... | |
| Bernard Pares - Russia - 1907 - 602 pages
...mankind bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms, the most durable measures, emanated from the supreme will of statesmen or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and deep knowledge." The next chapter is on " The Great Falsehood of Our Time." (^Amongst the falsest of political principles... | |
| Lucien Wolf - Antisemitism - 1921 - 68 pages
...lofty ideas and whoever he may be, and not deep knowledge,*and that, on at the hands of the masses".2 the contrary, the extension of the representative...principle is accompanied by an abasement of political ideas".1 In the second part of "The Jewish Peril," where the Elders of Zion are made to expound their... | |
| Thomas Riha - History - 2009 - 305 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great... | |
| David Mayers - Political Science - 1995 - 364 pages
...formulation: The history of mankind bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms . . . emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. Redoubled censorship, increased police activity... | |
| Kathy Sammis - Education - 2002 - 154 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and deep knowledge. On the contrary, the extension of the representative principle [right to vote] has ever been accompanied... | |
| Peter Viereck - Political Science - 200 pages
...fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of one statesman, or from a minority enlightened by lofty ideas and...the mass of the electors. It shows also that this extension — in great States — was inspired by secret aims to the centralization of power, or led... | |
| Peter N. Stearns - History - 2008 - 433 pages
...bears witness that the most necessary and fruitful reforms — the most durable measures — emanated from the supreme will of statesmen, or from a minority...accompanied by an abasement of political ideas and the vulgarization of opinions in the mass of the electors. . . . . . . Even in the classic countries of... | |
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