The patrician … can absolutely distinguish between ends, which are always and everywhere the same, and means, which we adopt only later to adapt, which we unhesitatingly alter and finally reject altogether when a more efficacious means presents itself, and which are thus of their nature expendable.


p. 4. - The New Patricians (1998)

R. W. K. Paterson Quotes

The patrician … can absolutely distinguish between ends, which are always and everywhere the same, and means, which we adopt only later to adapt,...

The patrician … can absolutely distinguish between ends, which are always and everywhere the same, and means, which we adopt only later to adapt,...

The patrician … can absolutely distinguish between ends, which are always and everywhere the same, and means, which we adopt only later to adapt,...

The patrician … can absolutely distinguish between ends, which are always and everywhere the same, and means, which we adopt only later to adapt,...