The conclusion drawn by aristocrats and their admirers is, that aristocracies are the most enduring of all the politiesknown to men, and that they are so because aristocrats are the most prudent and cautious of men.
Therefore aristocraticalpolities often attain to great age, and the nations that know them attain slowly to great and firmly-placed power.
When both polities were in full decadence, with the Inquisition hung round their necks, their intellectual life necessarily drooped.
It will not suffice that we have rejected the foundation of slavery, on which all the Greek polities rested.
In one aspect the Scandinavian polities have a special lesson for the larger nations.
But when once polities were begun, there is no difficulty in explaining why they lasted.
The study of politiesadmirably illustrates the Aristotelian doctrine of the Golden Mean (Ethics, c.
We judge ofpolities as of the various types of locomotives, according to the nature of the country where they are to run.
There is no polity which excels all other polities as man does the rest of animals.
The wide range of polities that history presents is not drawn out by the caprice of nations.
The claim of a pure democracy like this to supersede all other polities cannot be established by abstract arguments.
Of all polities it is the most simple and elementary possible.
Working, and therefore, as explained, lawful polities are as multitudinous as the species of animals.
He gravitated into California politiesby the law of his nature.
Coffroth was from Pennsylvania, where he had gained an inkling of polities and general literature.
But when once polities were began, there is no difficulty in explaining why they lasted.
But this is only one of the many gifts which those polities have conferred, are conferring, and will confer on mankind.
But even yet we have not realised the full benefit of those early polities and those early laws.
With this however was linked a strong traditional distrust of old-world polities and a habit of isolation from old-world entanglements.
For thirty-six years of uneasy peace the polities of Europe centred upon that possibility.
In England these dissentients were the Non-conformists, who played a very large part in the polities of that country in the seventeenth {308} and eighteenth centuries.
But in all polities we observe two sources of decay existing from natural causes, the one external, the other internal and self-produced.
Such polities are ever in progress; at first from worse to better, and then from better to worse.
With the aid of the Aristotelian polities and our historical examination of Greek governments we may now make some observations which will help us to see whether the assumption was justified by facts.
The one feature common to all Polities was that they were made by a fusion of oligarchy and democracy.
All other polities are counterfeits: factions and cabals, rather than governments:[40] delusions carried on by tricksters and conjurers.
But among these other politiesor sham polities, there is a material difference as to greater or less badness: and the difference turns upon the presence or absence of good laws.
The result is that the character of all existing polities is determined by the predominance of one or other of these classes, and it is the common opinion that there are two polities and two only, viz.
The general account we have given ought therefore to be regarded only as a kind of limiting formula, embracing within its range a number of polities distinct and even opposed in character.
The preceding attempt at a general sketch of the nature of the Greek state is inevitably loose and misleading to this extent, that it endeavours to comprehend in a single view polities of the most varied and discrepant character.
Now, according to our view, such governments are not polities at all, nor are laws right which are passed for the good of particular classes and not for the good of the whole state.
States which have such laws are not polities but parties, and their notions of justice are simply unmeaning.
But the business of the Pope (that mixed person of polities and religion) has long ceased to be a bugbear: for some time past he has ceased to be even a colorable pretext.
Hero-worship, perennial amongst men; the cornerstone of polities in the Future.
As he himself said, late in life,--"I could never reconcile it to my principles to make money by my polities or my religion.
The politiesof central and eastern Europe were always constituents of empires - reluctantly or by choice.
The developing countries are already up in arms over promises made by the richer polities in the protracted Uruguay round and then promptly ignored by them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
