Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 pages |
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... respects satisfactory , a rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have definite meanings . We must therefore take it for granted that when he announced " the greatest happiness of ...
... respects satisfactory , a rule , principle , or axiom , is valuable only in so far as the words in which it is expressed have definite meanings . We must therefore take it for granted that when he announced " the greatest happiness of ...
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... respecting the specific ends to be obtained , exists re- specting the right mode of attaining them when supposed to be known . Let us look at a few cases . When it was enacted in Bavaria that no marriage should be allowed between those ...
... respecting the specific ends to be obtained , exists re- specting the right mode of attaining them when supposed to be known . Let us look at a few cases . When it was enacted in Bavaria that no marriage should be allowed between those ...
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... respecting crooked lines and broken - backed curves , or to deduce from the theorems of mechanics the proper method of setting to work a dislocated machine . No conclusions can lay claim to absolute truth but such as depend upon truths ...
... respecting crooked lines and broken - backed curves , or to deduce from the theorems of mechanics the proper method of setting to work a dislocated machine . No conclusions can lay claim to absolute truth but such as depend upon truths ...
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... respect are they not so adapted ? what is the special qualification which the social state requires ? It requires ... respects in which he is not fitted to society , are the respects in which he is fitted for his original predatory life ...
... respect are they not so adapted ? what is the special qualification which the social state requires ? It requires ... respects in which he is not fitted to society , are the respects in which he is fitted for his original predatory life ...
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... respects admirable , is dowerless . In thus obeying the dictates of his nature , he may entail considerable distress of mind on his relatives ; but it does not follow that his conduct is bad ; it follows , rather , that the feelings ...
... respects admirable , is dowerless . In thus obeying the dictates of his nature , he may entail considerable distress of mind on his relatives ; but it does not follow that his conduct is bad ; it follows , rather , that the feelings ...
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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...