...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,...

...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,...

...in which there is at least a certain settled order of the family. Here is to be found the " golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our selfishness, and it must be the most happy and durable state." The picture set before us at the...

...certain deterioration, this period of the development of the human faculties, occupying a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of our modern self-love, must have been at once the happiest and the most durable epoch. The more we reflect,...

...it, in which there is at least a certain settled order of the family. Here is to be found the "golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our selfishness, and it must be the most happy and durable state." The picture set before us at the...

...huts were built. Men had become more fierce and cruel than at first. The condition was intermediate between the indolence of the primitive state, and the petulant activity of self-love now seen in the world. This, he thought, was the stage reached by most savages known to Europeans;...

...the primitive condition, but to the state of dawning social life and dawning civilisation which lies between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our own self-love. This period was the real youth of the world, and ought never to have been abandoned....

...period of human existence to be " that of the development of the human faculties, occupying a golden mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love." Savages, he holds, are mostly in this stage, " the true youth of the world " ; and...

...handsome countenance adorned by nature's hand alone," in which the youthful race presented a " happy mean between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love," were they not, in a form hardly renewed by the philosopher of Geneva, the Arcadia of...

...already undergone some change, this period of development of human faculties, indicating a just medium between the indolence of the primitive state and the petulant activity of our self-love must have been its happiest and most durable stage. The more one reflects, the more it...