Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 pages |
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... inference in the one case , we cannot do so in the other . Hence , notwithstanding all the incongruities , we must admit the existence of a Moral Sense to be both pos- sible and probable . 3. But that we possess such a sense , may be ...
... inference in the one case , we cannot do so in the other . Hence , notwithstanding all the incongruities , we must admit the existence of a Moral Sense to be both pos- sible and probable . 3. But that we possess such a sense , may be ...
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... inference that as desire is found to be the incentive to action where motives are readily analyzable , it is probably the universal incentive ; and that the conduct we call moral is determined by it as well as other conduct . Moreover ...
... inference that as desire is found to be the incentive to action where motives are readily analyzable , it is probably the universal incentive ; and that the conduct we call moral is determined by it as well as other conduct . Moreover ...
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... inference is enforced by the considera- tion , that any departure from principle to escape some anticipated evil , is a return to the proved errors of ex- pediency . It is again enforced by the fact , that the in- numerable attempts of ...
... inference is enforced by the considera- tion , that any departure from principle to escape some anticipated evil , is a return to the proved errors of ex- pediency . It is again enforced by the fact , that the in- numerable attempts of ...
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... inference , there must be exactness in the antecedent propositions . A geometri- cian requires that the straight lines with which he deals shall be veritably straight ; and that his circles , and ellipses , and parabolas shall agree ...
... inference , there must be exactness in the antecedent propositions . A geometri- cian requires that the straight lines with which he deals shall be veritably straight ; and that his circles , and ellipses , and parabolas shall agree ...
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... inference that as advance- ment has been hitherto the rule , it will be the rule hence- forth , may be called a plausible speculation . But when it is shown that this advancement is due to the working of a universal law ; and that in ...
... inference that as advance- ment has been hitherto the rule , it will be the rule hence- forth , may be called a plausible speculation . But when it is shown that this advancement is due to the working of a universal law ; and that in ...
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Page 515 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 192 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 145 - 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 354 - The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Page 242 - I.), which declares that any one disguised and in possession of an offensive weapon " appearing in any warren, or place where hares or conies have been, or shall be usually kept, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.
Page 145 - 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 393 - ... and conquer, by all fitting ways, enterprises and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall at any time hereafter...
Page 109 - A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection...
Page 413 - If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Page 230 - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...