 | George Sidney Brett - Ethics - 1913 - 346 pages
...fail to rouse in the best minds of every generation a sense of their great worth. Society, says Burke, "is not a partnership in things subservient only to...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." APPENDIX (a) The sources for this subject are mainly the following : Milton, Areopagitica ; Hobbes,... | |
 | Jed Rubenfeld - Philosophy - 2008 - 269 pages
...do live still." 10 Thus also Burke, who reacted to Jeffersonian radicalism by describing society as a "partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born." 31 But to Jefferson in 1789 (and after), we are emphatically nut "alive in" the dead or those yet to... | |
 | Eddie Miller, Robert Corfe - Espionage, Soviet - 2002 - 424 pages
...words of Burke may be used in defining the purpose of New Socialism when he wrote that, "society is a partnership not only between those who are living,...living, those who are dead and those who are to be bom."55 *** The foregoing chapters have considered the international dimension in the world of work... | |
 | Mathew Humphrey - Nature - 2001 - 182 pages
...perfection. As the ends of such a parmership cannot be obtained in many generations. it becomes a parmership not only between those who are living. but between...living. those who are dead. and those who are to be born [Bitrke. 1973: 108. tiO]. Paine found Burke's vision of an intergenerational parmership particularly... | |
 | Benjamin W. Redekop, Calvin Redekop - History - 2001 - 276 pages
...in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection ... it becomes a partnership not only between those who...those who are living, those who are dead, and those to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of... | |
 | E. Robert Statham - Philosophy - 2002 - 256 pages
...Its nature was summed up in the words of two Englishmen, writing almost two centuries apart: [Society is] a partnership in all science; a partnership in...each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society.30 (Edmund Burke, 1790) [A civilization] may be regarded as a... | |
 | Niels Bjerre-Poulsen - Conservatism - 2002 - 342 pages
...sense, inasmuch as the state was not a "partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee ..." but a partnership not only between those who are living,...each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible... | |
 | Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Stephen R. Kellert - Science - 2002 - 394 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity." For Burke, society is "a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born" (ibid., p. 195). It is reasonable, given what we now know, to enlarge the concept of intergenerational... | |
 | David W. Orr - Science - 2002 - 247 pages
...derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity" (1 19). For Burke, society is "a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born" (ibid., 195). It is reasonable, given what we now know, to enlarge the concept of intergenerational... | |
 | Mark Hulliung - History - 2002 - 278 pages
...find in the "republican" past an American version of the social contract that Burke had construed as "a partnership not only between those who are living...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."16 Unfortunately, the admirers of generational continuity could only achieve their ends by ignoring... | |
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As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. 
