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Identifier: menthoughtinmode00scot (find matches)
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
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t the subject of these powers but the independentholder of the government.—Bluntschli. The process of election affords a moral certainty thatthe office of President will never fall to the lot of any manwho is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisitequalifications. Talents for low intrigue and the little artsof popularity may alone suffice to elevate a man to the firsthonours in a single state, but it will require other talentsand a different kind of merit to establish him in the esteemand confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable aportion of it as would be necessary to make him a success-ful candidate for the distinguished office of President ofthe United States.—Alexander Hamilton (1787). Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always ex-plain, how it happens that this great office—the greatest inthe world, unless we except the Papacy, to which anyonecan rise by his own merits—is not more frequently filledby great and striking men.—Lord Bryce (1911).
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GLADSTONE. (Page 230 Chapter XVII. GLADSTONE AND LIBERALISM. THE Liberal and Conservative types of mind areobservable throughout history. Party names aretemporary things, but the opposing attitudes ofmen towards political questions denoted by thosenames is declared in all ages and all countries. The biastowards change, the reforming energy, the willingness tomeet to-morrow half way, are typical of the Liberal tem-perament. The bias towards stability, the maintaininginclination, the disposition not to trouble about to-morrowtill to-morrow comes, are typical of the Conservative tem-perament. The Liberal has faith in the future, the Con-servative has faith in the past; the former thinks the presentcould be improved upon, the latter doubts whether it is animprovement upon what has been. These, however, are general statements, only true inthe rough; for most people are both Liberals and Conser-vatives. The Barons who forced King John to affix his sealto Magna Carta were Liberals concerning

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