...freedom of our will would be our ruin. First of all there must be law ; that is, a fixed rule of teaching what is to be done and what is to be left undone. This rule cannot affect the lower animals in any true sense, since they act of necessity, following...

...have come to control the ways and means of production and distribution, at large and in detail, in what is to be done and what is to be left undone. And the business interests of these absentee owners no longer coincide in any passable degree with...

...and will by which the law is known and applied. Finally, since every law is a "fixed rule of teaching what is to be done and what is to be left undone," we complete our definition by adding the words, "by which we discern what is good and what is evil."...

...nature, and this is nothing other than the light of the intellect placed in us by God, through which we know what is to be done and what is to be avoided. God gave this light and this law to the human person at creation. But many believe themselves...

...fairly belongs in the new order of industry, is now governed by business men for business ends, in what is to be done and what is to be left undone" (p. 99). That phrase encapsulates Veblen's harsh empirical view of the vested interests combined with...

...fairly belongs in the new order of industry, is now governed by business men for business ends, in what is to be done and what is to be left undone" (p. 99). In that phrase is encapsulated Veblen's harsh empirical view of the vested interests combined...

...There is a wisdom which knows when to go and when to stay, when to speak and when to remain silent, what is to be done and what is to be left undone. It knows, too, the limitations set by fear and by courage, what constitutes bondage and what freedom....

...is no measure of its excellence. The author desires to inform the would-be operator, not only as to what is to be done and what is to be left undone, but precisely hmv to do the former. After carefully reviewing the treatises on operative surgery, published...

...freedom of our will would be our ruin. First of all there must be law ; that is, a fixed rule of teaching what is to be done and what is to be left undone. This rule cannot affect the lower animals in any true sense, since they act of necessity, following...

...time when it behoves the man, out of the tangled mass of contradictions he sees in the world, to judge what is to be done and what is to be left undone. For not only must he separate true from false, but he must also use the false as well as the true,...