Genius, Fame and the Comparison of RacesAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science, 1897 - 42 lappuses |
Citi izdevumi - Skatīt visu
Bieži izmantoti vārdi un frāzes
ACADEMY OF POLITICAL achieve eminence adoption AMERICAN ACADEMY ANNALS appear Athenian Athens Austria-Hungary Austrian School Bank basis born Cabinet Government canal career cause century comparatively comparison Compulsory Voting Constitution culture Deferred Payments discussion E. R. JOHNSON Economic England English exist explains fact fame famous favor function of race Galton German gifted give Greek Hereditary Genius hindrances instruction interest Italian Italy Jews Julius Cæsar labor letters literary Lorenzo de Medici ment method Municipal Govern natural ability natural selection Nicaragua Canal nomics painters paper perhaps Pericles Perugino Phidias POLITICAL AND SOCIAL Political Economy population present produced Professor proportion Proportional Representation PUBLICATIONS question railway reason recent reputation S. N. PATTEN Scaliger Social Science society Sociology sort Standard of Deferred STUART WOOD suggested suppose taxation Theory of Value tion Translation United wealth worth of races
Populāri fragmenti
328. lappuse - But yet, notwithstanding the meanness and inconsiderableness of my Parents, it pleased God to put it into their Hearts to put me to School, to learn both to read and write...
324. lappuse - I feel convinced that no man can achieve a very high reputation without being gifted with very high abilities; and I trust I have shown reason to believe, that few who possess these very high abilities can fail in achieving eminence.
322. lappuse - I argue that, if the hindrances to the rise of genius, were removed from English society as completely as they have been removed from that of America, we should not become materially richer in highly eminent men.
334. lappuse - To be thrown upon one's own resources," says Franklin, "is to be cast in the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy, of which they were previously unsusceptible.
321. lappuse - By natural ability, I mean those qualities of intellect and dis'position, which urge and qualify a man to perform acts that lead to reputation. I do not mean capacity without zeal, nor zeal without capacity, nor even a combination of both of them, without an adequate power of doing a great deal of very laborious work.
346. lappuse - Social morality grew exceedingly lax; marriage became unfashionable, and was avoided; many of the more ambitious and accomplished women were avowed courtesans and consequently infertile, and the mothers of the incoming population were of a heterogeneous class. In a small sea-bordered country, where emigration and immigration are constantly going on, and where the manners are as dissolute as were those of Greece in the period of which I speak, the purity of a race would necessarily fail.
340. lappuse - It follows from all this, that the average ability of the Athenian race is on the lowest possible estimate, very nearly two grades higher than our own — that is, about as much as our race is above that of the African Negro.
338. lappuse - ... habits and customs since the establishment of railroads, and there is not the slightest use in attempting to preserve them; they are hindrances, and not gains, to civilization. I shall refer to some of these a little further on, but I will first speak of the qualities needed in civilized society. They are, speaking generally, such as will enable a race to supply a large contingent to the various groups of eminent men of whom I have treated in my several chapters. Without going so far as to say...
323. lappuse - A prodigal nature commonly so prolongs the period when a man's receptive faculties are at their keenest, that a faulty education in youth, is readily repaired in after life.
346. lappuse - We know, and may guess something more, of the reason why this marvelously gifted race declined. Social morality grew exceedingly lax ; marriage became unfashionable, and was avoided; many of the more ambitious and accomplished women were avowed courtesans and consequently infertile, aud the mothers of the incoming population were of a heterogeneous class.