Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 21, 2025
Looking about him for the ways and means of effecting this centralization, he perceived that one of the very first obstacles to be removed was that created by the power of Buddhism militant, the feudal Buddhism developed under the Hojo regency, and especially represented by the great Shin and Tendai sects.
Bridges bristled with anger, and went off into a long harangue on States rights and the dangers of centralization, to which Enderby replied: "Bosh! the whole trouble with your bally Government is its lack of cohesion. If I had my way, I'd wipe out the Senate and put a strong man like Roosevelt at the head of the executive.
What we call civilization is, I suspect, only, in proportion to its perfection, a more or less thorough social centralization, while centralization, very clearly, is an effect of applied science.
The leading ideas of his long and political life were, evidently, centralization and an hereditary monarchy. To beat back foreign invasion, to conciliate and to enlist the Irish-born Danes under his standard, were preliminary steps. For Morrogh, his first-born, and for Morrogh's descendants, he hoped to found an hereditary kinship after the type universally copied throughout Christendom.
Quartermaster Department, Ordnance Department, Signal Corps, and the other bureaus were uncoördinated, and inevitable waste and inefficiency followed all their operations. It was the crisis that arose from the problem of supplies, in the winter of 1917, that furnished the President with the opportunity to cut red-tape and secure the centralization he desired.
Mr. Johnson talks of the danger of centralization, and repeats the old despotic fallacy of many tyrants being worse than one, a fallacy originally invented, and ever since repeated, as a slur upon democracy, but which is a palpable absurdity when the people who are to be tyrannized over have the right of displacing their tyrants every two years.
This centralizing process, by which several small communities became absorbed in a larger one, of course was far from being an idea specially Roman. Not only did the development of Latium and of the Sabellian stocks hinge upon the distinction between national centralization and cantonal independence; the case was the same with the development of the Hellenes.
The processes of specialization and centralization that were at work portended the growing power of those who possessed the means to build factories and ships and railways but not necessarily the freedom of the many. The doctrine of laissez faire assumed that power would bring with it a sense of responsibility.
It had conquered the world that a great centralization of power might be created, under which peace and plenty might reign, and a new religion might spread.
His responsibility, however, was very great; for the keynote of all this scheme, according to Dr. Goodnow , was "centralization of power," a parrot-like phrase which has deluded better men than ever came to China and which save as a method necessary during a state of war should have no place in modern politics. But it was precisely this which appealed to Yuan Shih-kai.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking