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" Did much knowledge and piercing intelligence suffice to make men good, then Bacon should have been honest, and Napoleon should have been just. Where the character is defective, intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant... "
A Valiant Woman: A Contribution to the Educational Problem - Page 200
by Mary Fisher - 1912 - 303 pages
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Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1851 - 492 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...men, are just as reckless, and even more reckless ? How else is it that the London thief, who has heen at the treadmill a dozen times, will steal again...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 542 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...starvation ? How else is it that medical students, who Jcnow the diseases brought on by dissolute living better than other young men, are just as reckless,...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1868 - 544 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...than other young men, are just as reckless, and even mere reckless ? How else is it that the London thief, who has been at the treadmill a dozen times,...
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Social Statics, Or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1871 - 552 pages
...matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, oven a distinct foresight of evil consequences will not...at work. How else does it happen that men will get drank, though they know drunkenness will entail on them suffering, and disgrace, and (as with the poor)...
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Journal of the National Indian Association, in Aid of Social ..., Issues 109-120

1880 - 768 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...drunkenness will entail on them suffering and disgrace and even starvation ? ' In fact, no amount of knowledge will suffice to reform character unless the appropriate...
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Education

1898 - 706 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct fore-sight of evil consequences,...will not restrain when strong passions are at work." If man is merely an industrial animal he is certainly the most pathetic object on the world's surface...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1890 - 564 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...restrain when strong passions are at work. How else docs it happen that men will get drunk, though they know drunkenness will entail on them suffering,...
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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised ; Together with The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 448 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...men, are just as reckless, and even more reckless ? How else is it that the London thief, who has been at the treadmill a dozen times, will steal again...
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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 442 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...men, are just as reckless, and even more reckless ? How else is it that the London thief, who has been at the treadmill a dozen times, will steal again...
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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State

Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 450 pages
...intellect, no matter how high, fails to regulate rightly, because predominant desires falsify its estimates. Nay, even a distinct foresight of evil consequences...does it happen that men will get drunk, though they knoiv drunkenness will entail on them suffering and disgrace, and (as with the poor) even starvation...
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