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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... painful experience has proved the two to be equally indeterminate . Nay , we begin to suspect that the right is the more easily ascertained of the two ; and that your maxim would be better if transposed .nto - whatever is right is ...
... painful experience has proved the two to be equally indeterminate . Nay , we begin to suspect that the right is the more easily ascertained of the two ; and that your maxim would be better if transposed .nto - whatever is right is ...
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... pain than pleasure . Where is that point ? Some appear to think that intellectual culture and the gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the educated classes mental ...
... pain than pleasure . Where is that point ? Some appear to think that intellectual culture and the gratifications deriveable from it can hardly be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the educated classes mental ...
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... pain ; and would always generate such convic- tions , were it unopposed . As however there is a perpet- ual conflict amongst the feelings - some of them being in antagonism throughout life - there results a proportionate incongruity in ...
... pain ; and would always generate such convic- tions , were it unopposed . As however there is a perpet- ual conflict amongst the feelings - some of them being in antagonism throughout life - there results a proportionate incongruity in ...
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... pain , disease , and death , are entailed upon animals by certain kinds of treatment , may all be generalized under the same law . Every suffering incident to the human body , from a headache up to a fatal illness -from a burn or a ...
... pain , disease , and death , are entailed upon animals by certain kinds of treatment , may all be generalized under the same law . Every suffering incident to the human body , from a headache up to a fatal illness -from a burn or a ...
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... pain , imply non - adaptation . But why is not man adapted to the social state ? Simply because he yet partially retains the characteris- tics that adapted him for an antecedent state . The re- spects in which he is not fitted to ...
... pain , imply non - adaptation . But why is not man adapted to the social state ? Simply because he yet partially retains the characteris- tics that adapted him for an antecedent state . The re- spects in which he is not fitted to ...
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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...