“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia
King v. Woolf (1819), 1 Chit. 423.
“Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?”
Pliny the Elder book Natural History
Book XXVIII, sec. 23.
Naturalis Historia
Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale (1783–1851) British lawyer
Duke of Brunswick v. Bang of Hanover (1844), 6 Beav. 49.
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“Good habits are here more effectual than good laws elsewhere.”
…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/tacitus-germ-latin.html#19]
End of chapter 19, http://www.unrv.com/tacitus/tacitus-germania-5.php <br class="br">Germania (98)
“Every one must be supposed to be cognizant of a public law.”
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818) Lord Chief Justice of England
Smith v. Beadnell (1807), 1 Camp. 33.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Source: A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (1908), II
Context: The hypothesis of God is a peculiar one, in that it supposes an infinitely incomprehensible object, although every hypothesis, as such, supposes its object to be truly conceived in the hypothesis. This leaves the hypothesis but one way of understanding itself; namely, as vague yet as true so far as it is definite, and as continually tending to define itself more and more, and without limit. The hypothesis, being thus itself inevitably subject to the law of growth, appears in its vagueness to represent God as so, albeit this is directly contradicted in the hypothesis from its very first phase. But this apparent attribution of growth to God, since it is ineradicable from the hypothesis, cannot, according to the hypothesis, be flatly false. Its implications concerning the Universes will be maintained in the hypothesis, while its implications concerning God will be partly disavowed, and yet held to be less false than their denial would be. Thus the hypothesis will lead to our thinking of features of each Universe as purposed; and this will stand or fall with the hypothesis. Yet a purpose essentially involves growth, and so cannot be attributed to God. Still it will, according to the hypothesis, be less false to speak so than to represent God as purposeless.
Thomas Robert Malthus Principles of Political Economy
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section VII, p. 374
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte book The Vocation of Man
Jane Sinnett, trans 1846 p.104
The Vocation of Man (1800), Faith
Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author
Introduction, p. xiii
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)
Context: When we are lulled into somnolence by lack of challenge every molehill tends to become a mountain, every minor inconvenience an intolerable imposition. For a self-chosen reality tends to become a prison. The factors that protect and insulate civilized man can easily end by suffocating him unless he possesses a high degree of self-discipline, the 'highly developed vital sense' that Shaw speaks of. And since clever and sensitive people are inclined to lack self-discipline, a high degree of culture usually involves a high degree of pessimism. This is what has happened to Western civilisation over the past two centuries. It explains why so many distinguished artists, writers and musicians have taken such a negative view of the human situation.