Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 pages |
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... House of Commons . By their account man lives and moves and has his being by legislative permit . His freedom to do this or that is not natural , but conferred . The ques- tion - Has the citizen any claim to the work of his hands ? can ...
... House of Commons . By their account man lives and moves and has his being by legislative permit . His freedom to do this or that is not natural , but conferred . The ques- tion - Has the citizen any claim to the work of his hands ? can ...
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... House of Commons £ 74 a year more than to its astronomer royal ? If , then , public opinion is so fallible a test of relative merits , where shall a trustworthy test be found ? Clearly , if the freedom to which each is entitled varies ...
... House of Commons £ 74 a year more than to its astronomer royal ? If , then , public opinion is so fallible a test of relative merits , where shall a trustworthy test be found ? Clearly , if the freedom to which each is entitled varies ...
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... house - breaking or sheep - stealing , is held up to eternal infamy ; but the manufacturer who steals his foreman's improved plan for the spinning of cotton , or the building of steam engines , continues to be held in high re- spect ...
... house - breaking or sheep - stealing , is held up to eternal infamy ; but the manufacturer who steals his foreman's improved plan for the spinning of cotton , or the building of steam engines , continues to be held in high re- spect ...
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... houses , your railway shares , and your money in the funds ? If you are right in the interpretation you give to the term ' monopoly , ' I do not see why that term should not be applied to the coats on your backs and the provisions on ...
... houses , your railway shares , and your money in the funds ? If you are right in the interpretation you give to the term ' monopoly , ' I do not see why that term should not be applied to the coats on your backs and the provisions on ...
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... house ; and then let us see whether you would be as steady as you are . Suppose your savings had to be made , not , as now , out of surplus income , but out of wages already insufficient for necessaries ; and then consider whether to be ...
... house ; and then let us see whether you would be as steady as you are . Suppose your savings had to be made , not , as now , out of surplus income , but out of wages already insufficient for necessaries ; and then consider whether to be ...
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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...