Individuals who survived to this, the latest and highest stage of evolutionary progress would be “ those in whom the power of self-preservation is the greatest — are the select of their generation .” Moreover, Spencer perceived governmental authority as borrowed from the people to perform the transitory aims of establishing social cohesion, insurance of rights, and security.

In An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation he talks of ‘ the principle of utility ’ but later prefers “ the greatest happiness principle ".

Bernhard ’ s focus on Jungian depth psychology proved to be the single greatest influence on Fellini ’ s mature style and marked the turning point in his work from neorealism to filmmaking that was “ primarily oneiric ”.

In a recent interview with American Songwriter Chris Hillman explained that, “ The greatest legacy of the Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram is we were the alternative country band.

On June 19, 2007, Garfield was given the greatest birthday present: “ I ’ M OFF MY DIET !” Occasionally the strip celebrates Halloween as well with scary-themed jokes, such as mask gags.

Early tributes as to what Tenniel in his role as a national observer meant to the British nation around the time of his death came in as high praise ; in 1914 New York Tribune journalist George W. Smalley referred to John Tenniel as “ one of the greatest intellectual forces of his time, ( who ) understood social laws and political energies .”

In 1978, “ Forever Changes ” was ranked as the 16th greatest rock album of all time in “ Rock Critics ’ Choice: The Top 200 Albums ,” a book compiled by Paul Gambaccini.

On June 14, 1940, the day Paris was declared an open city by the French and occupied by German troops, Riefenstahl wrote to Hitler in a telegram, “ With indescribable joy, deeply moved and filled with burning gratitude, we share with you, my Führer, your and Germany's greatest victory, the entry of German troops into Paris.

The SCSL indicted Taylor for “ bearing the greatest responsibility ” for atrocities in Sierra Leone since November 1996.

Anarchy is a “ method of individualization .” It aims to combine the greatest individual development with the greatest communal unity.

Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

" For these socialists, “ The intuition of the masses in action can have more genius in it than the work of the greatest individual genius ”.

According to Juliet Thompson's diary, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá suggested that she marry Remey, and in 1909 asked her how she felt about it, reportedly requesting of her: “ Give my greatest love to Mr. Remey and say: You are very dear to me.

The science fiction writer Frederik Pohl has described Heinlein as “ that greatest of Campbell-era sf writers ”.

In An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation he talks of ‘ the principle of utility ’ but later prefers “ the greatest happiness principle ".

Perhaps aware that Hutcheson eventually removed his algorithms for calculating the greatest happiness because they “ appear ’ d useless, and were disagreeable to some readers ”

The former are those “ manifested by his observed behaviour, including preferences possibly based on erroneous factual beliefs, or on careless logical analysis, or on strong emotions that at the moment greatly hinder rational choice ” whereas the latter are “ the preferences he would have if he had all the relevant factual information, always reasoned with the greatest possible care, and were in a state of mind most conducive to rational choice .” It is the latter that preference utilitarianism tries to satisfy.

Consequently, “ the decay of population is the greatest evil that a state can suffer ; and the improvement of it the object which ought, in all countries, to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatsoever .” More recently a similar view has been expressed by Smart who argued that all other things being equal a universe with two million happy people is better than a universe with only one million happy people.

Associated with these great valleys are a number of volcanic peaks, the greatest of which occur on a meridional line east of the eastern trough.

" Virgil, in the Aeneid, has Aeneas ' father Anchises mention Fabius Maximus while in Hades as the greatest of the many great Fabii, quoting the same line.

Some feel that although masterfully orchestrated, it lacks the melodic lustre so characteristic of Verdi's earlier, great, operas, while many critics consider it Verdi's greatest tragic opera, containing some of his most beautiful, expressive music and some of his richest characterizations.

El Escorial, the great royal monastery built by King Philip II, invited the attention of some of Europe's greatest architects and painters.

The greatest influence on use of the harp has always been the availability of fine harps and skilled players, and the great increase of them in the U. S. of the 20th century resulted in its spread into popular music.

By far the greatest part of the East Bank is desert, displaying the land forms and other features associated with great aridity.

Rasmussen's " greatest achievement " was the massive Fifth Thule Expedition ( 1921 – 1924 ) which was designed to " attack the great primary problem of the origin of the Eskimo race.

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

According to Adler, of all the great ideas, the idea of God has always been and continues to be the one that evokes the greatest concern among the widest group of men and women.

Occupying a central position on the great highway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, wealth flowed into it from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, and the capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

Richard once praised Saladin as a great prince, saying that he was without doubt the greatest and most powerful leader in the Islamic world.

Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them: some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation ... Others, committing the safeguard of their lives, which were in continual jeopardy, to the mountains, precipices, thickly wooded forests, and to the rocks of the seas ( albeit with trembling hearts ), remained still in their country.

Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest — Martin Gardner called him " America's greatest puzzler ", and The Strand in 1898 dubbed him " the prince of puzzlers ".

For Williams ' fortieth birthday, MacArthur sent him an oil painting of himself with the inscription " To Ted Williams — not only America's greatest baseball player, but a great American who served his country.

If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.

While the 3, 000 mile buffer between it and Xerox headquarters in Rochester, New York afforded scientists at the new lab great freedom to undertake their work, the distance also served as an impediment in persuading management of the promise of some of their greatest achievements.

Orson Welles, in an interview with Dick Cavett, called Marshall "... the greatest human being who was also a great man ...

By the middle of the 17th century the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe.

It is undeniable that the Jews suffered the greatest death toll, and entire communities were obliterated in Eastern Europe and to a great extent in western countries.

While his father had regularly been in conflict with a great portion of his peerage, Edward III successfully created a spirit of camaraderie between himself and his greatest subjects.

The perhaps greatest figure of this era is Josef Jungmann, who translated many classics of world literature and spent his life establishing Czech literature as a serious, rich literature capable of great development.

Although the Tang and Song dynasty international seaports — the greatest being Guangzhou and Quanzhou, respectively — and maritime foreign trade brought merchants great fortune, it was the Grand Canal within China that spurred the greatest amount of economic activity and commercial profit.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception, and as having laid the foundation of those superstructures which have been raised in the Physical and Moral sciences ".

On at least two occasions ( 255 and 253 BC ) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather ; the disaster off Camarina in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

The greatest expansion of the impi outside the Zululand / Zimbabwe area however was to come in East Africa, where bands of Ngoni fighting men, conquered large swathes of territory, using the methods first laid down by Shaka.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

" Charles H. McIlwain likewise observes that " the idea of the equality of men is the profoundest contribution of the Stoics to political thought " and that " its greatest influence is in the changed conception of law that in part resulted from it.

According to Bearden himself, Christ ’ s life, death, and resurrection are the greatest expressions of man ’ s humanism, not because of Christ ’ s actual existence but the idea of him that lived on through other men.

* " So that, though overcome by three of the greatest things, honour, fear and profit, we have both accepted the dominion delivered us and refuse again to surrender it, we have therein done nothing to be wondered at nor beside the manner of men.

A leading self-made industrialist, he was one of the richest men of his time and was called the world's greatest salesman when he died in 1956.

The Grettis Saga refers to Yule as a time of " greatest mirth and joyance among men.

He had the greatest military potential of the century with his enormous armies ( often over 100, 000 men.

* October 23 – WWI: Torpedoing of the armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only three men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War.

When redirected in to the building and strengthening of these, we find men or women of the greatest endurance greatest magnetic power.

unanswerable ' and referring to Thoreau as ' one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced.

The operation was the greatest English venture of the Hundred Years ' War, involving an army of 35, 000 men.

Together, the three men are considered the greatest Andalusian philosophers.

Forrest's greatest victory came on June 10, 1864, when his 3, 500-man force clashed with 8, 500 men commanded by Union Brig.

Today, the greatest threat to the freedom and independence of the nations of Europe comes not from Le Pen and that 17 % of French men and women who voted for him.