 A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.  Science - Page 348edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...INNOVATION. -A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. the man who has no faith iu religion is the one who hath faith in a nightmare and gho — Burke. It will always do to change for the better. Thomson. IN NS. INSENSIBILITY. The ridiculous... | |
 | Tower Genealogical Society - 1909 - 428 pages
...always obtained." But genealogy is a nobler thing. Its justification we may find in the words of Edmund Burke: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Genealogy reinstates for our benefit the past out of which we have come that it may function helpfully... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1909 - 818 pages
...abilities, and to forget the significant saying of the greatest of the English political philosophers, that "people will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." But the impartial' scientist, regardless of political sentiment, vouches for the value of persistent... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 472 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | 1928 - 84 pages
...belief in fewer words in criticizing the radical French attempt at completely breaking with the past: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." As during the past hundred years, and more, Americans have been acting on Mr. Webster's advice, they... | |
 | Frank Burton Miller - 1909 - 66 pages
...FRANK BURTON MILLER MEMBER OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONSIDER THE DAYS OF MANY GENERATIONS " " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestry." — Edmund Burke ROCKLAND, MAINI THE CASLON PKESS PRINT 1909 17 H* Hot/l.oo cs. rft* FOREWORD... | |
 | Edwin Brockholst Livingston - 1910 - 740 pages
...THE ELDEST LINE THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED IN SINCERE RESPECT AND ESTEEM BY HIS COUSIN, THE AUTHOR " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." EDMUND BURKE PREFACE SINCE the author completed his manuscript, and placed it in the hands of Mr. John... | |
 | 1911 - 468 pages
...until the past has been grasped in all its essentials. Edmund Burke aptly phrased this when he wrote: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Time, with its revolving cycle of events, lies before us and in the ever widening circles we may, if... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1913 - 290 pages
...symbol for reverence towards all that is old and venerable. Who has not i met the familiar words that ' people will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors ' ? Who fails to recognise the almost equally familiar declaration : ' We fear God ; we look up with... | |
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