 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1895 - 792 страници
...harmonious whole that challenges our admiration. Humboldt says that "the aim of every man should be the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." As Jean Paul Richter puts it, "to make as much out of one's self as could be made out of the stuff."... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 страници
...from the outside. I think we may all agree with Humboldt that the aim of man should be to secure " the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" or, as we said in the first chapter, " to make the most of himself." This is the specific work of civilization,... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm C.K.F. freiherr von Humboldt - 1854 - 274 страници
...HIGHEST ENDS OP HIS EXISTENCE. THE true end of Man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by...of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes... | |
 | 1855 - 1130 страници
...chapter, where the author, after a brief description of the true end of man — which he defines to be 'the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ' — points out the necessity of perfect freedom in order to the attainment of this end, and establishes... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 страници
...Wilhelm Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 страници
...Wilhelm Von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious developement of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ;' that, therefore, the object ' towards... | |
 | 1860 - 446 страници
...spontaneity of conduct — is so little valued ; that few even comprehend William Humboldfs dictum, " the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 страници
...Wilhelm von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed...a complete and consistent whole;" that, therefore, the_object " towards which every human being must__ceas_elessly ^ direct his efforts^ and on which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 страници
...Wilhelm von Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise — that ' the end of man, or that which is prescribed...dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and tran-' sient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 446 страници
...navigation, and is it not in the same manner with reference to any other thing or any Government whatever I " The end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of Reason, is the highest and most harmonious development. . . . The individuality of power and development."—Baron... | |
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Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest... 
