 | Simon Sterne - 1867 - 60 pages
...transcendant advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plans among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." An improvement in the principles and practice of government thus endorsed by the world's greatest political... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1869 - 698 pages
...transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." He argues that it would secure representation in proportion to members of every division of the electoral... | |
 | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters - 1876 - 636 pages
...of overseers of Harvard University. Many English liberals favor it, and John Stuart Mill places it among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government, "and therefore of civilization." Mr. Thomas Hare, after whom this plan is often named, says: " In framing... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute, Toronto - 1892 - 188 pages
...transcendent advantages. Such, and so numerous are these, that in my conviction they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." It is not a little remarkable that a Danish statesman, Mr. Andrae, should have arrived at the same... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 380 pages
...transcendent advantages. Such, and so numerous are these, that in my conviction they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." It is not a little remarkable that a Danish statesman, Mr. Andrae, should have arrived at the same... | |
 | Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 592 pages
...still the most valuable single work on representative government which can be given our students, as " among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." The great features of Mr. Hare's book are its exposure of the unsuitableness of the principle of geographical... | |
 | John Rogers Commons - 1896 - 316 pages
...1872, p. 38. 244 PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. \ vance of practical details ; " and of his plan as " among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." l Certainly no discussions have equalled these treatises of Mill and Hare in placing before the thinking... | |
 | William Jethro Brown - 1899 - 236 pages
...ends, of scarcely inferior importance. . . . Such and so numerous are its advantages that they place it among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." Such commendation, if it failed to evoke enthusiasm, might at least have aroused interest. No champion... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1900 - 542 pages
...almost ' ideal perfection,' while incidentally attaining others of almost equal importance. He places it among the very greatest ' improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government.' 4 It would, for example, be almost a ' specific ' against the tendency of republics to ostracise their... | |
 | James Wilford Garner - 1910 - 630 pages
...Lord Avebury), Leonard Courtney, WEH Lecky, and other wellknown English publicists. Mill places it "among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." 2 Its advantages, according to Mill, are that it secures representation, in proportion to numbers,... | |
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I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in... 
