 | 1851 - 616 pages
...substance, with different properties, as hydrogen and oxygen are different from water, or as hydrogen, carbon, and azote, are different from nerves, muscles,...resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual man." It may be added that this view is natural to students of political economy,—the contests of this... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 pages
...METHOD IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCE. § I. THE laws of the phenomena of society are, and can be, nothing bnt the laws of the actions and passions of human beings...of Causes is the universal law. Now, the method of philosophizing which may be termed chemical overlooks this fact, and proceeds as if the nature of man... | |
 | 1867 - 224 pages
...from Sentiment." Explain the nature of this controversy. What would be your own solution of it ? 8. ' Human beings in society have no properties but those...resolved into the laws of the nature of individual man/ Discuss this. [Turn over. 9. ' Every law, simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person,... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1874 - 358 pages
...Philosophic Positive, 1. 31; zd ed. The following passage from Mr. Mill maybe taken in reply : — ' Human beings in society have no properties but those...derived from, and may be resolved into, the laws of nature of individual man ; ' System of Logic, 2d ed., n. 543. But, for the reason indicated by Hume,... | |
 | 1886 - 652 pages
...of human nature, independently ascertained : since — to quote his words (Logic, ii. 466)—" men, in a state of society, are still men : their actions...resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual man ". Now it is undeniable that the aggregate of the actions of man in society constitute a more complex... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1878 - 338 pages
...Philosophic Positive, 1. 31; 2d ed. The following passage from Mr. Mill maybe taken in reply :—' Human beings in society have no properties but those...derived from, and may be resolved into, the laws of nature of individual man ;' System of Logic, 2d ed., n. 543. But, for the reason indicated by Hume,... | |
 | 1886 - 892 pages
...value of Sir Henry Maine's specific instances, or, as he calls them, " extremely accessible facts :"— In social phenomena the Composition of Causes is the Universal Law. Now, the method of philosophizing which may be termed chemical overlooks this fact, and proceeds as if the nature of man... | |
 | 1886 - 988 pages
...their own. Immediately before the passage quoted from his ' Logic' by Mr. Godkin, Mill observes that' human beings in society have no properties but those which are derived from, or may be resolved into, the laws of the nature of individual men.' I do not assent to this, but the... | |
 | Hugh Taylor - 1888 - 332 pages
...method to be pursued in social science, he gives it as his opinion that " Human beings in societies have no properties but those which are derived from...phenomena the composition of causes is the universal law " (book vi. ch. vii.). And again (ch. ix.), " However complex the phenomena, all their sequences and... | |
 | Hugh Taylor - 1888 - 380 pages
...method to be pursued in social science, he gives it as his opinion that " Human beings in societies have no properties but those which are derived from...phenomena the composition of causes is the universal law " (book vi. ch. vii.). And again (ch. ix.), " However complex the phenomena, all their sequences and... | |
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THE laws of the phenomena of society are, and can be, nothing but the laws of the actions and passions of human beings united together in the social state. Men, however, in a state of society, are still men ; their actions and passions are obedient to... 
