Institutions

Examples

• But conditions change whether statesmen wish them to or not; society must have new institutions to fit new wants, and all that rigid conservatism can do is to make the transitions difficult. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such links of sentiment and association were of little avail against the intense separatism of the Greek political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Greeks were conquered by the Romans in 146 B.C,but before tha t time Roman life and institutions had been touched by Hellenic culture. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Institutions change as history shows; but their change, the rise and fall of states, is the work of the world-spirit. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The quintuple grade is designed more particularly for hotels, restaurants, clubs and other institutions where the wear is especially severe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One of those causes appeared to be the preference given, by the institutions of Mr. Colbert, to the industry of the towns above that of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of the Expense of public Works and public Institutions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The influence, besides, of the ancient institutions, was much more universal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It meant a rebellion against existing social institutions, customs, and ideals (See ante, p. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The object of the public works and institutions above mentioned, is to facilitate commerce in general. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The ruler may impose the laws and institutions which we have been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey them? Plato. The Republic.
• In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science to-day discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• On the contrary, such institutions were erected precisely because such a thing as the electric motor was available. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The institutions of your country are not your piece-work, and the only thing you have got to do, is, to mind your piece-work. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Such have been the effects of some of the modern institutions for education. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If by this is meant, Was he loyal to Athenian institutions? Plato. The Republic.
• After he had learnt what the institutions of Germany could teach him, he gave the French a turn next, and the Italians a turn after that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There would be no more empty taboos, no erecting of institutions upon abstract and mechanical analogies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But for hotels and other large institutions washing is now done by steam-power machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The future is explained by the economic and social institutions which were present at its birth: the trust and the labor union, all the movements and institutions, will condition it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The new effort proposes to fit creeds and institutions to the wants of men, to satisfy their impulses as fully and beneficially as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A small step further, institutions become an end in themselves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That simple statement might be taken to heart by all the reformers and socialists who insist that the people are all right, that only institutions are wrong. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many public institutions experienced his well-timed liberality, and he manifested a sensibility of heart by numerous acts of private charity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• How can I trust my native institutions, was the form in which he put it, after the way in which my native institutions have behaved to ME? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Typist: Penelope