Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 pages |
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... equal to two right angles , and whether the areas of similiar polygons are , or are not , in the duplicate ratio of ... laws of matter which the mechanical sense recognizes ; so may we expect the multitudes of conflicting beliefs about human ...
... equal to two right angles , and whether the areas of similiar polygons are , or are not , in the duplicate ratio of ... laws of matter which the mechanical sense recognizes ; so may we expect the multitudes of conflicting beliefs about human ...
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... law of equal freedom being overstepped . A man may behave unamiably , may use harsh language , may annoy by disgusting habits ; and whoso thus offends the normal feelings of his fellows , manifestly diminishes happiness . If we say that ...
... law of equal freedom being overstepped . A man may behave unamiably , may use harsh language , may annoy by disgusting habits ; and whoso thus offends the normal feelings of his fellows , manifestly diminishes happiness . If we say that ...
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... law of equal freedom betrays us into an apparent dilemma . By drunkenness , or by brutality of manner , our own happiness , or the happiness of others , is diminished ; and that not in an incidental but in a necessary way . And if by ...
... law of equal freedom betrays us into an apparent dilemma . By drunkenness , or by brutality of manner , our own happiness , or the happiness of others , is diminished ; and that not in an incidental but in a necessary way . And if by ...
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... law recog- nize an imperfect state . As matters stand , however , we must deal with it as best we may . There is ... equal freedom becomes the pre - requisite to normal life in society . And if this law of equal freedom is the pri mary ...
... law recog- nize an imperfect state . As matters stand , however , we must deal with it as best we may . There is ... equal freedom becomes the pre - requisite to normal life in society . And if this law of equal freedom is the pri mary ...
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... equal before the law . " The doctrine that " all men are naturally equal " ( of course not in their faculties , but only in their claims to make the best use of their faculties ) , has not only been asserted by philanthropists like ...
... equal before the law . " The doctrine that " all men are naturally equal " ( of course not in their faculties , but only in their claims to make the best use of their faculties ) , has not only been asserted by philanthropists like ...
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Page 417 - 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 94 - Act" (9th of George 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 60 - 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 44 - 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 60 - 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 377 - Therefore, before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant...
Page 417 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he ia a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 192 - ... our trade with all parts of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for depriving us of the...
Page 149 - ... interference which not only stops the purifying process, but even increases the vitiation — absolutely encourages the multiplication of the reckless and incompetent by offering them an unfailing provision, and ^courages the multiplication of the competent and provident by heightening the difficulty of maintaining a family.
Page 163 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.