Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 pages |
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... right to but himself . The labour of his body and the work of his hands , we may say are properly his . Whatever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to ...
... right to but himself . The labour of his body and the work of his hands , we may say are properly his . Whatever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in , he hath mixed his labour with , and joined to ...
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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.
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| Title | Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the State Selected works ... Westminster ed, Herbert Spencer The Making of the Modern Law |
| Author | Herbert Spencer |
| Edition | 4, abridged, revised |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1892 |
| Length | 431 pages |
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