 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 528 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...a general deterioration of character and conduct. Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | 1873 - 848 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...produces a general deterioration of character and conduct Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | 1873 - 1004 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...a general deterioration of character and conduct. Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1873 - 436 pages
...involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social—sears the sympathies, cultivates a hard egoism, and so produces...a general deterioration of character and conduct. Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | 1878 - 818 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...a general deterioration of character and conduct. Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1881 - 486 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...a general deterioration of character and conduct. Clearly, then, a visionary hope misleads those who think that in an imagined age of reason, which might... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1882 - 444 pages
...winner involves the misery of the loser : this kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social ; it sears the sympathies, cultivates a hard egoism, and...a general deterioration of character and conduct.' A GAMBLING SUPERSTITION. THERE are few more mistaken, yet few more persistent superstitions, than the... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1889 - 296 pages
...winner involves the misery of the loser : this kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social ; it sears the sympathies, cultivates a hard egoism, and...a general deterioration of character and conduct.' 103 SETTING ON RACES. WHEN I was travelling in Australasia, I saw a good deal of a class of men with... | |
 | Hugh Price Hughes - 1890 - 312 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies,...produces a general deterioration of character and conduct " (p. 306). For these reasons every gambler is cither a fool or a scoundrel, or both. We must ask one... | |
 | Frederick Anthony Atkins - 1890 - 102 pages
...and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social, sears the sympathies, cultivates...a general deterioration of character and conduct." There we have a calm, weighty, and logical summing up of the whole matter. Thank God, the passion for... | |
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But in gambling the opposite happens. Benefit received does not imply effort put forth ; and the happiness of the winner involves the misery of the loser. This kind of action is therefore essentially anti-social — sears the sympathies, cultivates a... 
