A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic PhilosophyC. L. Webster, 1892 - 319 pages |
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... Justice " in the synthetic philosophy . The synthetic philosophy . III IV - The idea of justice in the synthetic philosophy . 131 135 138 165 V - Mr . Spencer's task • 173 VI " The rights to the uses of natural media " 179 VII " Justice ...
... Justice " in the synthetic philosophy . The synthetic philosophy . III IV - The idea of justice in the synthetic philosophy . 131 135 138 165 V - Mr . Spencer's task • 173 VI " The rights to the uses of natural media " 179 VII " Justice ...
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... Justice , " contains his latest word on the land question- the question in which , as I believe , lies the only solution of all the vexed and threatening social and political prob- lems of our time . Accompanied , as it has been , by ...
... Justice , " contains his latest word on the land question- the question in which , as I believe , lies the only solution of all the vexed and threatening social and political prob- lems of our time . Accompanied , as it has been , by ...
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... justice , and such validity cannot be gained either by sale or bequest , or by peaceable possession during any length of time . 4. Nor is there any mode by which land can justly become private property . Cultivation and improve- ment ...
... justice , and such validity cannot be gained either by sale or bequest , or by peaceable possession during any length of time . 4. Nor is there any mode by which land can justly become private property . Cultivation and improve- ment ...
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... justice to anything but the rent , or compen- sation for its salable value , " the English writers had seemed to me afflicted with a sort of color - blindness on the subject of compensation . And that this afflic- tion had suddenly ...
... justice to anything but the rent , or compen- sation for its salable value , " the English writers had seemed to me afflicted with a sort of color - blindness on the subject of compensation . And that this afflic- tion had suddenly ...
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... justice . Keeping this in mind , it is clear that a few interpo- lations , justified by the context , and indeed made necessary by it , will remove all difficulty . Let me print these sentences again with such interpolations , which I ...
... justice . Keeping this in mind , it is clear that a few interpo- lations , justified by the context , and indeed made necessary by it , will remove all difficulty . Let me print these sentences again with such interpolations , which I ...
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abolished abolition absolute political ethics action animals appropriation assert assumption become belongs chapter civilization claims compensation confusion declares deducible denial deny derived doctrine E. W. Kemble earth Edinburgh Review England English equal freedom equal rights equitable erty evolution evolution philosophy existing fact give given gratification greater Herbert Spencer human idea ignorance implied individual injustice James's Gazette joint rights Justice Laidler land nationalization land question land-owners land-ownership landless landlords law of equal letter liberty light and air matter and motion means ment merely natural media natural rights negro opinions original owner poor law possession Principal Brown principle private property produced by labor Professor Huxley Progress and Poverty property in land reason recognized rent right of property rights to land seems slavery slaves Social Statics society soil Spencerian supreme Synthetic Philosophy theory tion truth utterances valid violate wrong
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Page 15 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 32 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 312 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 33 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 16 - Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Page 197 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Page 24 - A state of things so ordered would be in perfect harmony with the moral law. Under it all men would be equally landlords, all men would be alike free to become tenants. * * * Clearly, therefore, on such a system, the earth might be enclosed, occupied and cultivated, in entire subordination to the law of equal freedom.
Page 211 - If the heir was under age, the profits of the estates belonged to the lord, as also did the control of the marriage of the ward. Under the name of aids, the lord claimed stipulated sums from his tenants on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son, the marriage of his eldest daughter, or his own capture in war.