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It would be hard to find a more candid and sober record of the result of self-government in a small community than is contained in this simple discourse, patient in detail, large in treatment, more effective than any unsupported generalities about the natural rights of man, which amount to very little unless men earn the right of asserting them by attending fairly to their natural duties.
Moreover, everything in teaching and discipline could be specified, instead of our having to be content with vague and more or less mystic generalities about ultimate ideals and speculative spiritual symbols. He abolished the notion of ready-made faculties, which might be trained by exercise upon any sort of material, and made attention to concrete subject matter, to the content, all-important.
But utilitarian or natural ethics need not stop with the statement of vague generalities like the foregoing. In human society, as in the life of low animals, the worth and value of any form of conduct and of every single act can be estimated by definite biological criteria.
This is also why theorists, who have never plunged in themselves, or who cannot deduce any generalities from their experience, are unpractical and even absurd, because they only teach what every one knows how to walk.
"And these periods of probation," said Sarrion, reverting to those generalities which form the language of the cloister. "May they be dispensed with?" "Anything can be dispensed with by a dispensation," was the reply.
As the King's great interest in New France, coupled with his scant knowledge of its conditions, moved him to speak often, and usually in broad generalities, the intendant's activity was prodigious and his discretion wide. Ordinances and decrees flew from his pen like sparks from a blacksmith's forge.
I really need to tell some one, to unveil before some one who won't wince, but treasure the little moral residuum " Only sometimes in half-humorous generalities, she permitted things to escape, thinking no one understood. "Thanks, Beth. I'm grateful," Cairns said. "I seem to have missed for a long time the bigger dimension in people, books, pictures, faces, even in the heart.
An' as for yours why, Anson, it wouldn't hold water against one real gun-slinger." "A-huh' Then if we ran up ag'in' Carmichael or some such fellar would you be suckin' your finger like a baby?" "Wal, I wasn't takin' count of myself. I was takin' generalities." "Aw, what 'n hell are them?" asked Anson, disgustedly. "Jim, I know as well as you thet this hyar gang is hard put.
"I dislike to think of man as the product of evolution. It throws an onus on the whole of nature. Whereas with a God to blame the thing is simple." She nodded, which was doubly idiotic, inasmuch as there was nothing to nod to. He went on: "Life is too short for brevities for details. I save time by thinking, if you can call it thinking, en masse in generalities.
There should be some stuff in him of his own to meet these awful generalities. The physical education of children is a very simple matter, too simple to be much attended to without great perseverance and resolution on the part of those who care for the children. It consists, as we all know, in good air, simple diet, sufficient exercise, and judicious clothing.
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