The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

A third idea is that artistic literature serves to reduce emotional conflicts, giving a sense of serenity and calm to individuals.

It is possible that the idea of enrichment of emotion is a fifth idea.

It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

Finally we may note that the idea appears in educational theory where its influence is at present widespread.

namely, is the idea that there were Saxon mercenaries in England at all reasonable??

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

The trouble is that at first glance the idea looks like such a good one.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

He rejected the " emission theory " of Ptolemaic optics with its rays being emitted by the eye, and instead put forward the idea that light reflected in all directions in straight lines from all points of the objects being viewed and then entered the eye, although he was unable to explain the correct mechanism of how the eye captured the rays.

The " PCM tube " apparatus that Gray patented was made by Raymond W. Sears of Bell Labs, working with Gray and William M. Goodall, who credited Gray for the idea of the reflected binary code.

By then Lezo was one-eyed, lame and had a hand prevented because of various injuries suffered years ago ( it was known as “ Half-men ”), but none of these defects was reflected in the medals to not had the idea of having defeated a weak enemy.

This designation reflected the prevailing idea that anyone could be civilized / tamed by adopting Confucian social norms (; ).

The original subtitle reflected Lakoff's idea that conservatives, at least 1994 conservatives, understood the nature of American politics better than liberals.

Spielberg reflected, " George's idea was to start the movie with a musical number.

According to Caesar's Gallic Wars this doubling reflected the idea that it was difficult to identify the direction of the river due to its slow rate of flow.

His writings reflected a combination of what has been called meta-history ( ultimate redemption ) and history, including the idea that part of the problem on earth was dishonesty not only among individuals, but also among nations.

The idea of Jesus being born at night is reflected in the fact that Christmas Eve is referred to as " Heilige Nacht " (" Holy Night ") in German, " Nochebuena " (" the Good Night ") in Spanish and similarly in other expressions of Christmas spirituality, such as the song " Silent Night, Holy Night ".

Another idea Toynbee dismissed was that free competition was universally beneficial to economic and societal progress, especially as reflected in its apotheosis in Social Darwinism, which promoted laissez-faire capitalism.

The Sadducee idea of soul mortality reflected on Uriel Acosta who mentions them in his writings, and the thinker was referred to as a Sadducee in Karl Gutzkow's play The Sadducees in Amsterdam ( 1834 ).

Furthermore, since any prospective change in the legal rules that reduces the future value of some recognized property right necessarily reduces the present value of that property right as well, Hale posited that the legal idea of property reflected an abstract circularity.

By the time of Jesus the idea had developed that the wicked began their punishment in Hades immediately on dying, as reflected in the parable of Dives and Lazarus.

The idea that the ultimate good exists and is not orderable but is globally measurable is reflected in various ways in economic ( classical economics, green economics, welfare economics, Gross National Happiness ) and scientific ( positive psychology, the Science of morality ) well-being measuring theories, all of which focus on various ways of assessing progress towards that goal, a so-called Genuine Progress Indicator.

Also known as a paper bag party, these lighter-skinned social circles reflected an idea of exclusion and exclusiveness.

The idea was that universities would be able to " top up " the fees to a level that more accurately reflected the funding they needed.

Huángbò ’ s teaching on this reflected the Indian concept of the tathāgatagarbha, the idea that within all beings is the nature of the Buddha.

Such debates are reflected in discussion of positive science and specifically in economics, where critics, such as Gunnar Myrdal ( 1954 ) dispute the idea that economics can be completely neutral and agenda-free.

Further, local school children who were taken on visits to the factory in the late 1970s were told that the idea came from Shaw seeing light reflected from his car headlamps by tram tracks in the road on a foggy night.

Carl Hewitt had already published the idea for the PLANNER language before the MDL project began, but his subsequent thinking on PLANNER reflected lessons learned from building MDL.

More commonly referred to by its acronym TMOL, the site was originally started in early 2000 as a version of Forum 2000 and The Conversatron, but one that focused on the idea that videogames reflected a deep, self-actualizing message that could improve one's life.

This idea of impermanence was reflected in Kurokawa ’ s work during the Metabolism Movement.

From the outset, the WOMAD name has reflected the festival ’ s idea ; to be embracing but non-definitive, inspiring and outward looking ; and more than anything, enthusiastic about a world that has no boundaries in its ability to communicate through music and movement.

It reflected a physical victory by the nascent Jewish Zionist idea, and national pride.