 | Richard Theodore Ely - Socialism - 1883 - 296 pages
...age to that period. The golden age of humanity is not behind us ; it is to come, and will be found in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it ; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them." Saint -Simon had thus devoted his life... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 404 pages
...age to that period. The golden age of humanity is not behind us ; it is to come, and will be found in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it ; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them." The French Revolution, it was urged,... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 408 pages
...age to that period. The golden age of humanity is not behind us ; it is to come, and will be found in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it ; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them." The French Revolution, it was urged,... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1917 - 684 pages
...age to that period. The golden age of humanity is not behind us; it is to come, and will be found in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them." The French Revolution, it wns urged,... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - History - 1920 - 402 pages
...have banished there. TEeH golHenjige is not behind us, but in front of us. It^ iiTtFe perfection of social order. Our fathers have not seen it ; our children will arrive there one day._ ,rN and it is for us to dear the way for them." The Comte de Saint-Simon, who wrote these words... | |
 | Harry Wellington Laidler - Political Science - 1927 - 780 pages
...Politiques, Morales, ct Philosophiques, Vol. II, pp. 33-4 (Paris, 1817), quoted in Ely, op. cit., p. 55. the social order. Our fathers have not seen it; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them." For a while he eked out an existence... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - Education - 1986 - 492 pages
...eighteenth-century age of Enlightenment The golden age is not behind us, but in front of us. It is the perfection of social order. Our fathers have not seen it; our children...there one day, and it is for us to clear the way for them.1 SAINT-SIMON While Jonathan Edwards was verbally depicting the plight of "sinners in the hands... | |
 | George Lichtheim - Political Science - 526 pages
...to those days. The golden age of mankind is not behind us; it is before us; it is [to be found] in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have...not seen it, our children will arrive there one day; it is for us to pave the way.6 This stirring theme was echoed countless times in the SaintSimonian... | |
 | Göran Stockenström - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 399 pages
...should have been abandoned there. The golden age of mankind is not behind us; it is ahead; it is in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it; our children will get there one day; and it is for us to open the way for them.10 Strindberg's faith, however, in the... | |
 | Jack D. Douglas - Social Science - 1989 - 520 pages
...of Political Myths The golden age of humanity is not behind us; it is to come, and will be found in the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it; our children will one day behold it. It is our duty to prepare the way for them. Comte Henri de Saint-Simon . . .we have... | |
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The golden age is not behind us, but in front of us. It is the perfection of the social order. Our fathers have not seen it, our children will arrive there one day, and it is for us to clear the way for them. 
