The Analysis of Human Nature: Or, An Investigation of the Means to Improve the Condition of the Poor, and to Promote the Happiness of Mankind in General; Comprising, Also, the Progress and Present State of Political, Moral, and Religious Society, Volume 2W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... and not instructed how to provide før itself , it would still remain in total ignorance and incapacity . Nature supplies food for the brute creation , but not for the human species , without labour , except 2 EDUCATION .
... and not instructed how to provide før itself , it would still remain in total ignorance and incapacity . Nature supplies food for the brute creation , but not for the human species , without labour , except 2 EDUCATION .
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... ignorant tribes of savage nations ; and this is the state in which we should all be had we remained in a state of nature , neglected in our infancy , and not afterwards have been instructed and improved . It is therefore education alone ...
... ignorant tribes of savage nations ; and this is the state in which we should all be had we remained in a state of nature , neglected in our infancy , and not afterwards have been instructed and improved . It is therefore education alone ...
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... ignorant , but his mind is capable of receiving any impression that may be given it , and may be cast into any mould . Although he is en- tirely destitute of wisdom , in the first instance , or in the first stage of his existence , yet ...
... ignorant , but his mind is capable of receiving any impression that may be given it , and may be cast into any mould . Although he is en- tirely destitute of wisdom , in the first instance , or in the first stage of his existence , yet ...
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... ignorance . For the lowest race of human beings have an idea of improvement ; and , if not corrupted by bad example , would have a vene- ration for wisdom , morality , and religion . The untutored savage , if not corrupted by bad ex ...
... ignorance . For the lowest race of human beings have an idea of improvement ; and , if not corrupted by bad example , would have a vene- ration for wisdom , morality , and religion . The untutored savage , if not corrupted by bad ex ...
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... ignorant . Thus we are all de- pendant upon each other , and therefore selfish desires stand prominent in the catalogue of human crimes . Every being is instructed by its parents how to procure its food , or it could not exist . Na ...
... ignorant . Thus we are all de- pendant upon each other , and therefore selfish desires stand prominent in the catalogue of human crimes . Every being is instructed by its parents how to procure its food , or it could not exist . Na ...
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