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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... ethics and afford a surer guide than shifting notions of expediency or the vague formula of the greatest good to the greatest number . He found it in the principle that " every man may claim the full- est liberty to exercise his ...
... ethics and afford a surer guide than shifting notions of expediency or the vague formula of the greatest good to the greatest number . He found it in the principle that " every man may claim the full- est liberty to exercise his ...
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... ethical truth is as exact and as peremptory as physical truth ; and that in this matter of land - tenure , the verdict of morality must be distinctly yea or nay , Either men have a right to make the soil private property , or they have ...
... ethical truth is as exact and as peremptory as physical truth ; and that in this matter of land - tenure , the verdict of morality must be distinctly yea or nay , Either men have a right to make the soil private property , or they have ...
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... ethics , have commonly fallen into the error of referring back to an imaginary state of sav- age wildness , instead ... ethical principles and the assumed premises . To this circumstance is attributable that vagueness by which the ...
... ethics , have commonly fallen into the error of referring back to an imaginary state of sav- age wildness , instead ... ethical principles and the assumed premises . To this circumstance is attributable that vagueness by which the ...
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... ethical point of view , entirely valueless . Thus , as already hinted , we find , that the circum- stances of savage life , render the principles of abstract morality inapplicable ; for it is impossible , under ante- social conditions ...
... ethical point of view , entirely valueless . Thus , as already hinted , we find , that the circum- stances of savage life , render the principles of abstract morality inapplicable ; for it is impossible , under ante- social conditions ...
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... of land . On the contrary , so strongly , so uncompromisingly , does Mr. Spencer insist on the ethical invalidity of private property in land that he makes the formal consent of the community and the 40 DECLARATION .
... of land . On the contrary , so strongly , so uncompromisingly , does Mr. Spencer insist on the ethical invalidity of private property in land that he makes the formal consent of the community and the 40 DECLARATION .
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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.