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... citizens . There is , of course , a close connexion between the senti- ment of justice and the social type . Predominant militancy , by the coercive form of organization it implies , alike in the fighting body and in the society which ...
... citizens . There is , of course , a close connexion between the senti- ment of justice and the social type . Predominant militancy , by the coercive form of organization it implies , alike in the fighting body and in the society which ...
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... citizens is most elaborate , socialism is most highly developed ; and from the head of the German military system has now come the proposal of regimental regulations for the working classes through- out Europe . . Sympathy which , a ...
... citizens is most elaborate , socialism is most highly developed ; and from the head of the German military system has now come the proposal of regimental regulations for the working classes through- out Europe . . Sympathy which , a ...
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... citizen against a fellow - citizen , not only for bodily damage voluntarily inflicted on him but for bodily damage caused by careless actions or inactions , dates back some centuries at least . Much more extensive applications of the ...
... citizen against a fellow - citizen , not only for bodily damage voluntarily inflicted on him but for bodily damage caused by careless actions or inactions , dates back some centuries at least . Much more extensive applications of the ...
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... citizen belonged not to himself but to his city . And it is noteworthy that in the most warlike Greek state , Sparta , not only was the condition of the helot more abject than elsewhere , but the Spartan master himself was deprived in a ...
... citizen belonged not to himself but to his city . And it is noteworthy that in the most warlike Greek state , Sparta , not only was the condition of the helot more abject than elsewhere , but the Spartan master himself was deprived in a ...
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... citizens . The growing influence of the trading classes was shown by the concession of liberty of journeying to foreign merchants . And then when , after another hundred years , the attachment of the serf to the soil , gradually ...
... citizens . The growing influence of the trading classes was shown by the concession of liberty of journeying to foreign merchants . And then when , after another hundred years , the attachment of the serf to the soil , gradually ...
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Page 50 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 51 - 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 92 - 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 50 - ... own activities, but only an implied recognition of such claims in the persons of others, and by implication a prescribing of limits. Taking no note of intermediate forms of the conception, we may instance among modern forms the one which it took in the mind of Kant.
Page 92 - 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 - ... and spread of the most adapted varieties. And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct: neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.
Page 39 - That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions heing supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one...
Page 51 - the law of nature," because its general precepts are essentially adapted to promote the happiness of man, as long as he remains a being of the same nature with which he is at present endowed, or, in other words, as long as he continues to be man, in all the variety of times, places, and circumstances, in which he has been known, or can be imagined to exist ; because it is discoverable by natural reason...
Page 51 - But at any rate they had adequate protection in their theory of Natural Law. For the Natural Law of the jurisconsults was distinctly conceived by them as a system which ought gradually to absorb civil laws, without superseding them so long as they remained unrepealed...
Page 220 - Spencer's formula of justice, "the liberty of each limited only by the like liberties of all," represents the ideal which Amercan law has had before it during its whole existence.