Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 pages |
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... individual instances , we find Louis XVI . interpreting " greatest happiness " to mean - making locks ; instead of which his successor read - making empires . It was seemingly the opinion of Lycurgus that perfect phy- sical development ...
... individual instances , we find Louis XVI . interpreting " greatest happiness " to mean - making locks ; instead of which his successor read - making empires . It was seemingly the opinion of Lycurgus that perfect phy- sical development ...
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... individuals contain the same com- bination of elements . Duplicate men are not to be found . There is in each a different balance of desires . Therefore the conditions adapted for the highest enjoyment of one , would not perfectly ...
... individuals contain the same com- bination of elements . Duplicate men are not to be found . There is in each a different balance of desires . Therefore the conditions adapted for the highest enjoyment of one , would not perfectly ...
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... individual cases ? Does not the experience of all nations testify to the futility of these empirical attempts at the acquisition of happiness ? What is the statute - book but a record of such unhappy guesses ? or history but a narrative ...
... individual cases ? Does not the experience of all nations testify to the futility of these empirical attempts at the acquisition of happiness ? What is the statute - book but a record of such unhappy guesses ? or history but a narrative ...
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... individual charac- ter , of the effects of religions , customs , superstitions , preju- dices , of the mental tendencies of the age , of the probabilities of future events , & c . , & c .; and then , grasping at once the multiplied ...
... individual charac- ter , of the effects of religions , customs , superstitions , preju- dices , of the mental tendencies of the age , of the probabilities of future events , & c . , & c .; and then , grasping at once the multiplied ...
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... individuals of whom a com- munity is composed , that is , their pleasures and their security , is the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view ; the sole standard in conformity with which each individual ought , as far as ...
... individuals of whom a com- munity is composed , that is , their pleasures and their security , is the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view ; the sole standard in conformity with which each individual ought , as far as ...
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Page 108 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 127 - 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, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 207 - Commentaries, remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force and all their validity and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 219 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 65 - Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness.
Page 126 - 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 15 - It has been shown that the happiness of the individuals, of whom a community is composed, that is their pleasures and their security, is the end and the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view : the sole standard, in conformity to which each individual ought, as far as depends upon the legislator, to be made to fashion his behaviour.
Page 474 - 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 is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Page 123 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body — society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community. Stewards would be public officials instead of private ones, and tenancy the...
Page 323 - It seems hard that widows and orphans should be left to struggle for life or death. Nevertheless, when regarded not separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of diseased parents, and singles out the low-spirited, the intemperate, and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic.