"Counterforce" Quotes from Famous Books
... diversities in natural conditions, not merely thus directly produce diversities in social development, but, by producing diversities in social development, bring out in man himself an obstacle, or rather an active counterforce, to improvement. As families and tribes are separated from each other, the social feeling ceases to operate between them, and differences arise in language, custom, tradition, religion—in short, in the whole social ... — English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.) |