The Service of the State. Four Lectures On the Political Teaching of T. H. Green
The Service of the State. Four Lectures On the Political Teaching of T. H. Green
John Henry Muirhead
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A deeper objection is likely to suggest itseK from the point of view of the student of history who, though he has discarded the theory of a social contract in' favour of the axiom that "constitutions are not^ made bu t grow,^ has yet^qnyinced-Jiimself that) t he chief fa ctor injthgfa' growth is not will but ^ , "circumstances/' "Does the accoimt that the^"^ pHiIosopher gives of the origin and meaning of human institutions," he will be inclined to ask,| "really correspond with fact? Is he not b...y a species of anthropomorphism attributing to will\ what is really due to climate, situation, economic necessity — ^in a word, to the pressure of circum- stances? What evidence is there in the institu- tions of a country like Russia or Portugal of the operation of anything that can be called the will i of the people, or in the last resort of anything more than the mere brute force of geographical, industrial and other external conditions interacting/ with fixed features of inherited character?
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