 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 pages
...the cold sluggishness of q§r national character, we still bear the stamp of our forefathers. . . . We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Religion and science - 1928 - 328 pages
...science, they certainly have not been more successful than in metaphysics. " We know," wrote Burke, " that we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality." The Bible is, in fact, the only book that makes great and real discoveries in that subject, as everyone... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1821 - 422 pages
...in other respects. So far from admitting the truth of the assertion, that there are " no discoveries to be made in morality, nor many in the great principles of government," we must think that these sciences "were, until almost within our own times, in their very infancy.... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us.5 Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries, and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government. nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - Social Science - 386 pages
...the passage preceding the one quoted. Burke polemicizes against Rousseau, Voltaire, and Helvetius: "We know that we have made no discoveries, and we...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born. ... In England we have... | |
 | William St Clair - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 612 pages
...Helvetius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - Political Science - 1992 - 394 pages
...Helvétius has made no progress amongst us. Atheists are not our preachers; madmen are not our lawgivers. We know that we have made no discoveries; and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
 | Adam Potkay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 276 pages
...not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. . . . We [English] know that we have made no discoveries; and we think...morality; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... | |
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We know that -we have made no discoveries, and we think that no discoveries are to be made, in morality ; nor many in the great principles of government, nor in the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born, altogether as well as... 
