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" ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 170
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...look backward to their ancestors. Eeflectiout on the Eevolution in France. Vol. Hi. p. 274. You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.1 P. 277. It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Danphiness,...
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The French Revolution: Chapters from the Author's History of England During ...

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - France - 1904 - 616 pages
...your community was happily composed. You had all that combination and all that opposition of interests which in the natural and in the political world from...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. Those opposed and conflicting interests which you considered as so great a blemish in your old, and...
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Lala Lajpat Rai: The Man in His Word

Lajpat Rai (Lala) - Hindu civilization - 1907 - 334 pages
...descriptions of which your community was happily composed, you had all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which in the natural...the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws put the harmony of the universe." I express no opinion upon the force of the anathemas hurled by Burke...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 24

Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...was happily composed ; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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Social Organization; a Study of the Larger Mind

Charles Horton Cooley - Social psychology - 1909 - 452 pages
...the harmony of music is produced by differing but correlated sounds. We want what Burke described as "that action and counteraction, which in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe."* So far as likeness is necessary it is apparently a likeness of essential ideas and, still more, of...
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Social Organization; a Study of the Larger Mind

Charles Horton Cooley - Social psychology - 1909 - 464 pages
...harmony of music is produced by differing but correlated sounds. We want what Burke described as " that action and counteraction, which in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe."* So far as likeness is necessary it is apparently a likeness of essential ideas and, still more, of...
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Selections of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 472 pages
...happily composed; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had'that action and counteraction, which, in the natural and...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a bletpish in your old and...
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Marcus Aurelius and the Later Stoics

Frederick William Bussell - Philosophy - 1910 - 320 pages
...the furtherance of the World's Purpose (whatever that may be), — so that, as Burke says, " we have that action and counter-action which in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the Universe," — why, we ask, does Marcus apply a bad and contemptuous name to any one of these diverse, yet (in...
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Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure ...

Charles Henry Betts, Theodore Roosevelt - Employers' liability - 1912 - 110 pages
...floats in the music of his grandest passages — as when he speaks of, "That action and interaction which in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggles of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." PROF. HENRY JONES FORD, of...
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Great Debates in American History: Revenue: the tariff and taxation

Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 522 pages
...combination and that opposition of interests, that action and that counteraction which, in the natural and the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." This is the language of one of the wisest men and most accomplished minds that ever lived. I hope our example...
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