"Obtainment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can scarcely fail to observe also how these differences correspond with differences between their conditions of existence, and consequent activities. Among the lowest races of men, love of property stimulates to the obtainment only of such things as satisfy immediate desires, or desires of the immediate future. Improvidence is the rule: there is little effort to meet remote contingencies. But the growth of established societies ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer |
