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" I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 410
1848
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

England - 1848 - 806 pages
...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading A on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64

England - 1848 - 802 pages
...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...think that the normal state of human beings is that of straggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 28

Commerce - 1853 - 798 pages
...nothing more. " I confess I am not charmed," says one of the soundest and strongest of modern writers,* "with the ideal of life held out by those who think...human beings is that of struggling to ' get on ;' that tho trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issue 51

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...extinct. Most thoughtful people are now inclined to agree rather with John Stuart Mill || when he says : "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and * Labour Annual, 1897, p. 392. f P- 395. J p. 415. \\Political Economy, bk. IV, oh. vi, §2; and see...
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The Chinese and their rebellions viewed in connection with their ...

Thomas Taylor Meadows - 1856 - 746 pages
...amount, being to render the progress of wealth and of the productive arts unnecessary, and so get rid of the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels, which form the existing type of social life. We should then, Mr. Mill says, have a state of society in which a much larger body of persons than...
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The Chinese and Their Rebellions: Viewed in Connection with Their National ...

Thomas Taylor Meadows - China - 1856 - 754 pages
...amount, being to render the progress of wealth and of the productive arts unnecessary, and so get rid of the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels, which form the existing type of social life. We should then, Mr. Mill says, have a state of society in which a much larger body of persons than...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 6

Great Britain - 1866 - 908 pages
...to support. The passage in Mr. Mill's writings is tho following:—"I confess I am not (•'harmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that tho normal •'-to of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, washing, elbowing,...
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Secular Annotations on Scripture Texts

Francis Jacox - Bible - 1870 - 550 pages
...haste, as was the Jewish passover. The most eminent political economist of our day owns himself to be " not charmed " with the ideal of life held out by those...the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on one another's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human...
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Secular annotations on Scripture texts, Volume 1

Francis Jacox - 1870 - 434 pages
...haste, as was the Jewish passover. The most eminent political economist of our day owns himself to be "not charmed" with the ideal of life held out by those...the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on one another's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human...
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Literary and Social Judgments

William Rathbone Greg - Criticism - 1873 - 370 pages
...with the unaffected aversion manifested towards it by political economists -of the old school I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on-our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of lifo held out by those who think...
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