...exact reason weighed the causes, and nature of commonwealths, and suffer daily those miseries, that proceed from the ignorance thereof, is invalid. For...certain rules, as doth arithmetic and geometry ; not, as o 2 PART ii. tennis-play, on practice only : which rules, neither ._2n- _, poor men have the leisure,...

...exact reason weighed the causes, and nature of commonwealths, and suffer daily those miseries, that proceed from the ignorance thereof, is invalid. For...certain rules, as doth arithmetic and geometry ; not, as PART n. and yet, because every act of man's will, and every , 2|- , desire, and inclination proceedeth...

...temptation of quoting a single sentence. " The greatest objection," he says, " is that of the practice." i Cap. xiii. . . . "Howsoever, an argument from the...three simple forms of government enumerated by the ancients—monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy—the doctrine of equality pointed clearly to the first....

...invalid. For though in all places of the world men should lay the foundation of their houses on the sanrl, it could not thence be inferred that so it ought to...and geometry ; not, as tennis-play, on practice only : which rules neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had...

...with exact reason weighed the causes and nature of commonwealths, and suffer daily those miseries that proceed from the ignorance thereof, is invalid. For...and geometry; not, as tennis-play, on practice only : which rules neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had...

...assumes that philosophy must begin like geometry with definitions. Cf. Pt. II. ch. 21. (p. 161). " The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths consisteth in certain rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry ; not (as in Tennis Play) in practice only." 1 Mackintosh (Eth1cal Dissertation,...

...assumes that philosophy must begin like geometry with definitions. Cf. Pt. II. ch. 21. (p. 161). " The skill of making and maintaining Commonwealths consisteth in certain rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry ; not (as in Tennis Play) in practice only." 1 Mackintosh (Ethical Dissertation,...

...the capacity of governments to govern he did not take a sanguine view.' ' The skill,' he writes, ' of making and maintaining commonwealths, consisteth...certain rules as doth arithmetic and geometry ; not, as tennis play, in practice only ; which rules neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had...

...aller gegen alle 7. Er hat keine Vorstellung von Recht und Unrecht, sondern 1 E. III, Kap. XX, S. 195. „The skill of making, and maintaining commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules, as doth arithm etic andgeometry; not, as tennis play, on practice only." z De Cive, S. 72. Vgl. hierzu auch...

...reason for his historical ineffectiveness is not very far to seek. A man who can say, as he did, that 'The skill of making, and maintaining Commonwealths, consisteth in certain rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise only'* lacks what might be called a sense...