All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... We shall understand the section only by realizing that the legislator is, in fact, in Rousseau's system, the spirit of institutions personified; his place, in a developed society, is taken by the whole complex of social custom, organization and tradition that has grown up with the State. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

All governments are really mixed in character; and what we call a democracy is only a more or less democratic government. ... We shall understand the section only by realizing that the legislator is, in fact, in Rousseau's system, the spirit of institutions personified; his place, in a developed society, is taken by the whole complex of social custom, organization and tradition that has grown up with the State. ...

• Word Count: 7114
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His health deteriorated and he retired to Oates, in Essex where he died in 1704. ... The example was that we arrive at knowledge in the opposite way a spider spins his web from its bowels. ... We do not gain ideas from within ourselves, but we acquire them from without. ... In Locke's words, "What has an aptness to produce pleasure in us is what we call good, and what apt is to produce pain in us we call evil". ... He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. ...

• Word Count: 7056
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• Grade Level: High School