 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...author, with singular discrimination, lays before his readers. For instance, it is asked, he says, " whether there is a general civilization of the whole...and will thus be carried on to the end of all things ?" And to this he answers — " for my part, I feel assured that human nature has such a destiny ;... | |
 | François Guizot, Guizot (M., François) - Civilization - 1850 - 330 pages
...whether there is a general civilization of the whole human race — a course for humanity to ran — a destiny for it to accomplish ; whether nations have...thus be carried on to the end of all things. .For jnypart^ LfeeLassured that human nature has such a des. tjny ; that, a. g-pnp.ral civilization pervades... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Civilization - 1854 - 338 pages
...whether there is a general civilization of the whole human race — a course for humanity to rjn — a destiny for it to accomplish ; whether nations have...never lost, but which grows and continues as a common stoqk, and will thus be carried on to the end of all things. For my part, I feel assured that human... | |
 | Hosea Ballou, George Homer Emerson, Thomas Baldwin Thayer, Richard Eddy - Universalism - 1856 - 464 pages
...Civilization," expresses the conviction that, from age to age, nations have transmitted VOL. XIII. 19 something to their successors, which is never lost,...stock, and will thus be carried on to the end of all things.i He thus suggests the doctrine of a progressive plan in human affairs. And to some such conviction,... | |
 | Joseph Arthur comte de Gobineau - 1856 - 568 pages
...that civilization "is a course for humanity to run — a destiny for it to accomplish. Nations have transmitted, from age to age, something to their successors...grows, and continues as a common stock, and will thus bo carried on to the end of all things. For my part (he continues), I feel assured that human nature... | |
 | Simeon Nash - Ethics - 1859 - 478 pages
...now regarded and written. There is a something which nations or society do transmit from age to age to their successors, which is never lost, but which...carried on to the end of all things. For my part, says Guizot, I feel assured that human nature has such a destiny ; that a general civilization pervades... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Civilization - 1865 - 338 pages
...whether there is a general civilization of the whole human race — a course for humanity to rjn — a destiny for it to accomplish ; whether nations have...part, I feel assured that human nature has such a des tiny ; that a general civilization pervades the human race ; that at every epoch it augments ;... | |
 | François Guizot - Civilization - 1885 - 284 pages
...whether there is a general civilization of the whole human race—a course for humanity to run—a destiny for it to accomplish; whether nations have...continues as a common stock, and will thus be carried on tp the end of all things. For my part, I feel assured that human nature has such a destiny; that a... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1892 - 382 pages
...of civilization is a record of progress. From age to age nation has transmitted to nation something which is never lost, but which grows and continues as a common inheritance, ceasing only with the end of time. The storm of revolution and the sunlight of reformation... | |
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... to run — a destiny for it to accomplish ; whether nations have not transmitted from age to age something to their successors which is never lost, but which grows and continues as a common stock, and will thus be carried on to the end of all things.... 
