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" Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines ; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. "
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal - Page 279
1907
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Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...any but its legitimate sense ; that, namely, in which it describes conduct purely moral. Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. If we would keep our conclusions free from ambiguity, we must reserve the term we employ to signify...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Social sciences - 1865 - 542 pages
...any but its legitimate sense ; that, namely, in which it describes conduct purely moral, tightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. If we would keep our conclusions free from ambiguity, we must reserve the term we employ to signify...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1868 - 544 pages
...namely, in which it describes conduct purely moral. Hightness expresses of actions, what straightncss does of lines ; and there can no more be two kinds...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. If we would keep our conclusions free from ambiguity, we must reserve the term we employ to signify...
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Social Statics, Or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Social evolution - 1871 - 552 pages
...any but its legitimate sense ; that, namely, in which it describes conduct purely moral. Mightncss expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. If we would keep our conclusions free from ambiguity, we must reserve the term we employ to signify...
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Social Statics; Or The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - 1877 - 548 pages
...namely, in which it describes conduct purely moral. Hightness expresses of actions, what straig fitness does of lines ; and there can no more be two kinds...right action than there can be two kinds of .straight line. If we would keep our conclusions free from ambiguity, we must reserve the term we employ to signify...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volumes 67-68

Henry Allon - English periodicals - 1878 - 694 pages
...straightness does of lines, * BRITISH QUABTKBLY REVIEW, January,. 1876, p. 18. 1378. and there can be no more two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.' Now, while the notion of moral rectitude is absolute and unique, it is so in respect. of inner moral...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 68

Christianity - 1878 - 616 pages
...contends that ' rightness expresses of actions what straightness does of lines, and there can be no more two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.' Now, while the notion of moral rectitude is absolute and unique, it is so in respect of inner moral...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...VIII. ActL Sc. 2. Heaven never helps the men who will not act. p. Sophocles, fragment 288. Kightness only real society. e. EMEBSON— Considerations by the Way. line. q. HERBEBT SPENCEB— Social Statics, Ch. XXXH. Par. 4. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...in the fear In cope malicious censurers. Jlenry VIII. Act L Sc. 2. Rightness expresses of action«, what straightness does of lines ; and there can no...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. д. HEKBEBT SPENCER — Social Statics, Ch. ХХХП. Par. 4. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs...
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The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...

Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1885 - 988 pages
...health, when sick we 1411 them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer. Byrmt. Rightness expresses of actions what straightness does of lines;...right action than there can be two kinds of straight line. Spencer. Oh, there is not in life a pleasure so sweet As to sit near the window and tilt up your...
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