 Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest...  Social and Political Morality - Page 103by William Lovett - 1853 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 792 pages
...harmonious whole that challenges our admiration. Humboldt says that "the aim of every man should be the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." As Jean Paul Richter puts it, "to make as much out of one's self as could be made out of the stuff."... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm C.K.F. freiherr von Humboldt - 1854 - 274 pages
...the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes... | |
 | 1855 - 1130 pages
...chapter, where the author, after a brief description of the true end of man — which he defines to be 'the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ' — points out the necessity of perfect freedom in order to the attainment of this end, and establishes... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;' that, therefore, the object 'towards •which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts,... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...prescribed by the eternal immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." Not that each man is to aim at independence of self-development, so as to undervalue the teachings... | |
 | James Heywood - 1860 - 362 pages
...by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" that therefore the object towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts, and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" that, therefore, the_object " towards which every human being must__ceas_elessly ^ direct his efforts^... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ; " that, therefore, the object " towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts,... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - Democracy - 1866 - 446 pages
...the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, in the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole: freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes;... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 650 pages
...Few persons enter into the spirit of Willielm von Humboldt's remark, that "the end of man, .... is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." To gain this there must be "individuality of power and development" ; and for this there are two requisites,... | |
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