 | Learned institutions and societies - 1869 - 280 pages
...perfect social state ; " and he adds, " it is not too much to say that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it." Far from thinking this true, I should rather be disposed to say that Man has,... | |
 | Education - 1869 - 860 pages
...have not advanced equally in morals. . . . It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it. ... Our vast manufacturing system, our gigantic commerce, our crowded towns and... | |
 | 1869 - 814 pages
...them ' all the brotherhood of man. But it ' is not too much to say, that the mass ' of our populations have not at all ' advanced beyond the savage code of ' morals, and have in many cases sunk ' below it. " During the last century, and espe" cially in the last thirty years, our in"... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 694 pages
...within them all the brotherhood of man. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it. A deficient morality is the great blot of modern civilization, and the greatest... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1870 - 528 pages
...pride or joy in the social state of England. It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals and have in many cases sunk below it. During the last century, and especially in the last thirty years, our intellectual... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1872 - 522 pages
...the brotherhood of man. But is it not too much to say, that the mass of our populations have notat all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it? A deficient morality is the great blot of modern civilization, and the greatest... | |
 | John Morley (visct.) - 1873 - 368 pages
...within them all the brotherhood of man. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases Bunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Arehipelago, vol. ii. pp. 460 — 1. vast process, working... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...have not advanced equally in morals ... It is not too much to say that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it." Sir John Lubbock's researches lead him to the exact reverse of this opinion.... | |
 | John Morley - Philosophers - 1873 - 368 pages
...them all the brotherhood of man. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations havo not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many 1 sunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. pp. 400 — 1. vast process, working forwards... | |
 | John Morley - 1873 - 368 pages
...them all the brotherhood of msn. But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations havo not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it.' — Wallace's Malay Archipelago, vol. ii. pp. 460 — 1. vast process, working... | |
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But it is not too much to say, that the mass of our populations have not at all advanced beyond the savage code of morals, and have in many cases sunk below it. 
