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Title: Men and thought in modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Scott, Ernest, 1868-
Subjects: Political science
Publisher: Melbourne : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he past and undo all the bad thingsthat have been done, society would forthwith dissolve.—Herbert Spencer. Nationality merely as nationality is a small motivepower in history, but nationality considered as exemplifiedor expressed in customs, language, affinities, even in names,expresses a number of mighty influences equivalent to allthat move as main springs the internal life of nations,and affect in a great degree their external history also,their relations to other nations, their development in artsand literature as well as politics, their propensity to Orrepulsion from ideas of political things and all that formsthe historical interest of their national life.—Stubbs. The characters of nations frequently change, and whatwe call national character is usually only the policy of thegoverning class, forced upon it by circumstances, or themanner of living which climate, geographical position andother external causes have made necessary for the inhabi-tants of a country.—W. R. Inge.
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JOHN STUART MILL. (Page 106 Chapter VIII. JOHN STUART MILL AND ECONOMICS. WHETHER men of action or men of thought havethe more profoundly influenced human historyit would be very hard to determine. When onestudies the life of a great architect of govern-ment like Charlemagne, or of an immense personal forcelike Napoleon, the achievements related seem so vast, theireffects so deep and far-reaching, that to compare them withwriters of books, quiet thinkers, studious resolvers of prob-lems, would appear to be futile. Some such image as a greatstorm uprooting oaks and rending masonry, in comparisonwith a gentle wind scarcely strong enough to rustle looseleaves, might suggest itself. But the question is not settled by a figure of speech.Very often we find men of action immediately impelled bymen of thought, and frequently where the influence is notdirectly evident it is not difficult to trace. Charlemagne,for all his personal grossness, read much in Saint Augus-tines book, de Civitate Dei,

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