Addresses on Educational and Economical SubjectsAndrew Elliot, 1885 - 156 pages |
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Page 80 - ... there never was more necessity for surrounding individual independence of thought, speech, and conduct, with the most powerful defences, in order to maintain that originality of mind and individuality of character, which are the only source of any real progress, and of most of the qualities which make the human race much superior to any herd of animals. Hence it is no less important in a democratic than in any other government, that all tendency on the part of public authorities to stretch their...
Page 80 - Experience, however, proves that the depositaries of power who are mere delegates of the people, that is of a majority, are quite as ready (when they think they can count on popular support) as any organs of oligarchy, to assume arbitrary power, and encroach unduly on the liberty of private life. The public collectively is abundantly ready to impose, not only its generally narrow views of its interests, but its abstract opinions, and even its tastes, as laws binding upon individuals.
Page 60 - ... faire would be answered in the affirmative. The State has determined what is right and wrong, what is expedient and inexpedient, and has appointed its agents to enforce its conclusions. Some of the highest obligations of humanity, some of the smallest businesses of everyday life, some of the most complicated transactions of our industrial and agricultural organisations, have been taken in hand by the State. Individual responsibility has been lessened, national responsibility has been heightened.
Page 8 - ... things that are not present to you, and thus I wish to recommend history to you as a most desirable course of study. Then again take foreign countries — travels. Here again you have matters which are absent, in the physical sense, from you; but the study of travels will enable you to realize things that are absent to your own minds. And as for the power of forming ideal pictures, there I refer you to poets, dramatists, and imaginative writers, to the great literature of all times and of all...
Page 9 - I want you to be able — and mark this point — to sympathize with other times, to be able to understand the men and women of other countries, and to have the intense enjoyment — an enjoyment which I am sure you would all appreciate — of mental change of scene. I do not only want you to know dry facts; I am not only looking to a knowledge of facts, nor chiefly to that knowledge. I want the heart to be stirred as well as the intellect. I want you to feel more and live more than you can do if...
Page 68 - English statesman expresses the general belief of Englishmen when he says— " How is it that while the increasing democracy at home is insisting, with such growing eagerness, on more control by the state, we see so small a corresponding development of the same principle in the United States or in Anglo-Saxon colonies \ It is clearly not simply the democratic spirit which demands so much central regulation. Otherwise we should find the same conditions in the Anglo-Saxon democracies across the seas.
Page 86 - German gold may have been re-exported, to supply the sum that ultimately went to America. Therefore I will not take a higher sum than £200,000,000. But we have this phenomenon before us — that £200,000,000 of gold has been applied to purposes for which, ten years ago or fourteen years ago, it was not necessary to apply it. I next have to ask from what annual supply of gold this extraordinary demand had to be met ? Now, many of you may be aware that there has been a falling off in the annual supply...
Page 9 - ... things that are absent to your own minds. And as for the power of forming ideal pictures, there I refer you to poets, dramatists, and imaginative writers, to the great literature of all times and of all countries. Such studies as these will enable you to live, and to move, and to think, in a world different from the narrow world by which you are surrounded. These studies will open up to you sources of amusement which, I think I may say, will often rise into happiness. I wish you, by the aid of...
Page 80 - And our present civilization tends so strongly to make the power of persons acting in masses the only substantial power in society, that there never was more necessity for surrounding individual independence of thought, speech, and conduct, with the most powerful defences...
Page 75 - On the contrary, it demands it, and it has confidence in the ultimate controlling power, which is the Legislature — that is to say, itself; but when we come to the execution of the work decided on by the Legislature, the democratic spirit does not feel confidence — on the contrary, it is exceedingly critical of all acts of the Executive, and we are confronted by the difficulty of an Executive summoned to all-pervading duties, but with agents who receive little popular support. The public demands...