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Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of ... - Page 142
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...person's conduct affects prejudicially the VL _ interests of others, society has jurisdiction over it, -tv and the question whether the general welfare will.\., or will not be promoted by interfering with it, be~ \VA Qomes_open to discussion. But there is no room r • -A \v ^or entertaining any such question...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 37

1880 - 1118 pages
...their constitutional rights. The offender may then "be justly punished by opinion, though not by law. As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...there is no room for entertaining any such question • He afterwards expressed, and publicly, his grief for having made this pi oposal. when a person's...
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Individual liberty, legal, moral, and licentious; in which the political ...

George Vasey (miscellaneous writer.) - 1877 - 200 pages
...affects prejudicially the interests of others, it is by no means a question open to discussion—" whether the general welfare will or will not be promoted by interfering." Such conduct ought decidedly to be condemned, and visited by disapprobation or legal punishment, iu...
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Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, Volume 9

1881 - 662 pages
...but I give a quotation from job* Stuart Mill (O* page 134) which seems to me to quite cover the case: "As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...by interfering with it becomes open to discussion." It will probably be admitted that the condition laid down by Mill "affecting prejudicially the interests...
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EDINBURGH MEDICAL JOURNAL

Edinburgh Medical Journal VOL.XXVIII-Paart II.January to June 1883 - 1883 - 598 pages
...of the women on the only possible ground—that of their danger to public health, and quotes Mill: " As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...will or will not be promoted by interfering with it Incomes open to discussion." If it be admitted that the condition laid down by Mill—"affecting prejudicially...
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Alcohol in History: An Account of Intemperance in All Ages; Together with a ...

Richard Eddy - 1887 - 492 pages
...prejndicially the interests of others, society has jurisdiction over it. The question is then open whether the general welfare will, or will not, be promoted by interfering with it. * Cited in Alcohol and the State, p. 106. t Social Statics, pp. 230, 303, 361, 406. . . Whenever in...
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The South Western Reporter, Volume 22

1893 - 1274 pages
...amount of liberty for each." Amos, Science of Law, p. 90. Rational freedom Is not a license to oppress. "As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...Interests of others, society has Jurisdiction over It " Mill, Liberty, c. 4. In our country the people have furnished a philosophic, as well as noble, manifestation...
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Annual Report, Volume 15, Part 1893

1893 - 468 pages
...amount of liberty for each." Amos, Science of Law, p. 90. Rational freedom is not a license to oppress. "As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...interests of others, society has jurisdiction over It." Mill, Liberty, c. 4. In our country tbe people have furnished a philosophic, as well as noble, manifestation...
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The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...

1894 - 916 pages
...constituted rights. The offender may then be justly punished by opinion, though not by law. As soon as an y to a man : surely it ', is a great ihing for any one...distracting toils and pleasures to have found out the labor w elf are will во 61 or will not be promoted by interfering with it, becomes open to discussion....
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Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Excise of the State of ..., Volume 6

New York (State). Department of Excise - 1902 - 718 pages
...to be influenced by them, to mankind in general." John Stuart Mill, in his Essay on Liberty, says: "As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects...by interfering with it becomes open to discussion. * * * To individuality should belong the part of life in which it is chiefly the individual that is...
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