 | 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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of...to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes ; but there... | |
 | 1855 - 1130 str.
...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... | |
 | 1859 - 782 str.
...prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;' that, therefore, the object 'towards •which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts,... | |
 | James Heywood - 1860 - 362 str.
...prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" that therefore the object towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts, and... | |
 | 1860 - 446 str.
...prescribed by the eternal immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole." Not that each man is to aim at independence of self-development, so as to undervalue the teachings... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 str.
...prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole ; " that, therefore, the object " towards which every human being must ceaselessly direct his efforts,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 str.
...prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole;" that, therefore, the_object " towards which every human being must__ceas_elessly ^ direct his efforts^... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 446 str.
...the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, in the highest and most harmonious development of his...to a complete and consistent whole: freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes; but there... | |
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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... 
