System of Positive Polity
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ISBN13: 9780217056205
Paperback|9780217056205
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: threefold stimulus derived from the three successive periods of partial and transitional organisation, and the result of the combination will be the carrying out of the true programme of the revolution, which it is its task to close. In this way all the stages of the preparatory life of man, all without exception, contribute to inaugurate the definitive form of his existence. This convergence of all the epochs of the past to the future is but a consequence of the fact that the problem for the race has always been in substance one and the same: viz. to constitute as far as possible the general unity of our nature for the individual and the society. Not to mention that each fresh approximation to such an end necessarily rested on the succession of previous steps, the entire series is required when we come to the special question of the solution, the systematic solution, of the problem, for otherwise it were impossible to state it aright. We may add that the several programmes of the past all admit of combination, provided that we begin by disengaging them from the perishable forms which alone rendered them conflicting. Such a fusion of the normal state with the whole of the existence whicli has prepared it, offers us at once the strongest with tiM-Vim guarantee for the stability of the future, and the best guide in stability determining its general character. As the philosophy of history guidance, rests beyond dispute upon social Statics, these are henceforth its most conclusive summary. For there can be no surer mode of gaining a right conception of the conditions of unity than by tracing it in the consecutive phases of its natural development. Hence the dependence of the future on the past, though not of our choice, is so far from an obstacle to our meditations on the process o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217056205 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217056202 |
| Weight | 2.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $43.43 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 642 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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