 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...  Growth Fetish - Page 9by Clive Hamilton - 2003 - 262 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | England - 1848 - 788 pages
...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 life...type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or any thing but one of the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1848 - 544 pages
...life, though true in some respects, is overcharged in others, and is unfaithful because incomplete. " I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or any thing but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. The Northern and... | |
 | Scotland - 1848 - 798 pages
...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 life...type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or any thing but one of the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 590 pages
...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 life...which form the existing type of social life, are the VOL. ii. 27 most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the... | |
 | England - 1848 - 806 pages
...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 life...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... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...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 life...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, ยง2; and see... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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