Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 pages |
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... admirable motives , and cogent reasons , which led our Government to establish an armed force on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade . What could be more essential to the " greatest happiness " UNGUIDED EXPEDIENCY.
... admirable motives , and cogent reasons , which led our Government to establish an armed force on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade . What could be more essential to the " greatest happiness " UNGUIDED EXPEDIENCY.
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... force of the objection above set forth may be fully admitted , without in any degree invalidating the theory . The error pointed out is not one of doctrine but of applica- tion . Those who committed it did not start from a wrong ...
... force of the objection above set forth may be fully admitted , without in any degree invalidating the theory . The error pointed out is not one of doctrine but of applica- tion . Those who committed it did not start from a wrong ...
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... force of habit ; and again when they discuss the probable influence of a proposed measure upon public morality ; and again when they recommend practice as a means of acquiring increased aptitude ; and again when they describe certain ...
... force of habit ; and again when they discuss the probable influence of a proposed measure upon public morality ; and again when they recommend practice as a means of acquiring increased aptitude ; and again when they describe certain ...
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... complete adaptation , since the force producing it must diminish ; so that , other causes apart , perfect adaptation can be reached only in infinite time . ] GREATEST HAPPINESS MUST BE SOUGHT INDIRECTLY . Ir is for 32 SOCIAL STATICS .
... complete adaptation , since the force producing it must diminish ; so that , other causes apart , perfect adaptation can be reached only in infinite time . ] GREATEST HAPPINESS MUST BE SOUGHT INDIRECTLY . Ir is for 32 SOCIAL STATICS .
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... force him to it . The degree of intelligence which our existing mode of life necessitates , cannot be arrived at without ages of wearisome application , and perhaps cannot get organized in the race without a partial and temporary sacri ...
... force him to it . The degree of intelligence which our existing mode of life necessitates , cannot be arrived at without ages of wearisome application , and perhaps cannot get organized in the race without a partial and temporary sacri ...
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Page 165 - 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.
Page 55 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 378 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Page 96 - 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 62 - 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 46 - 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 62 - 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 379 - 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 379 - For where no covenant hath preceded, there hath no right been transferred, and every man has right to every thing; and consequently, no action can be unjust. But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust: and the definition of INJUSTICE is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust, is just.
Page 190 - ... and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall, at any time hereafter, attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of the...