I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years ; so that not only the art... Reminiscences, addresses, and essays - Stranica 375napisao/la Francis Lieber - 1880Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
| Duncan Forbes - 1985 - Broj stranica: 358
...'scepticism'. It is worth noting that his well-known 'suspicion' that 'the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics which will remain true to the latest posterity', because we have not yet had experience of three thousand years and do not know what degree of refinement... | |
| David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston - 1994 - Broj stranica: 292
...principle of politics. I am apt ... to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years; so that not only the art of reasoning is... | |
| David Hume - 2003 - Broj stranica: 376
...study of it. I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years; so that not only the art of reasoning is... | |
| David Hume - Broj stranica: 356
...behaviour, he states : I am apt ... to entertain a suspicion that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet 1 Phil. Wks., VOL. m, p. 163. Cf. also below, p. 5, and the essay "A Dialogue" in... | |
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