 | John Morley - 1873 - 368 pages
...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,... | |
 | John Morley - Philosophers - 1873 - 368 pages
...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...in which there is at least a certain settled order of the family. Here is to be found the " golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our selfishness, and it must be the most happy and durable state." The picture set before us at the... | |
 | John Morley - 1878 - 490 pages
...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,... | |
 | Edward Caird - Literature - 1892 - 314 pages
...it, in which there is at least a certain settled order of the family. Here is to be found the "golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our selfishness, and it must be the most happy and durable state." The picture set before us at the... | |
 | Edward Jackson Lowell - France - 1892 - 432 pages
...huts were built. Men had become more fierce and cruel than at first. The condition was intermediate between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of self-love now seen in the world. This, he thought, was the stage reached by most savages known to Europeans;... | |
 | Harald Høffding - Philosophy, Modern - 1900 - 558 pages
...the primitive condition, but to the state of dawning social life and dawning civilisation which lies between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our own self-love. This period was the real youth of the world, and ought never to have been abandoned.... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Civil rights - 1903 - 332 pages
...period of human existence to be " that of the development of the human faculties, occupying a golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love." Savages, he holds, are mostly in this stage, " the true youth of the world " ; and... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - Clergy - 1907 - 600 pages
...handsome countenance adorned by nature's hand alone," in which the youthful race presented a " happy mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love," were they not, in a form hardly renewed by the philosopher of Geneva, the Arcadia of... | |
 | Jules Lemaître - 1908 - 386 pages
...already undergone some change, this period of development of human faculties, indicating a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love must have been its happiest and most durable stage. The more one reflects, the more it... | |
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... a just mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our egoism, must have been the happiest and most stable of epochs. 
