A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic PhilosophyC. L. Webster, 1892 - 319 páginas |
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... act of transfer can give no title , can many ? No : though nothing be multiplied for- ever , it will not produce one . Even the law recognizes this principle . An existing holder must , if called upon , substantiate the claims of those ...
... act of transfer can give no title , can many ? No : though nothing be multiplied for- ever , it will not produce one . Even the law recognizes this principle . An existing holder must , if called upon , substantiate the claims of those ...
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... acts made you sole owner of that vast mass of matter , having for its base the surface of your estate , and for its apex the centre of the globe ? all of which it appears you would monopolize to yourself and your descendants forever ...
... acts made you sole owner of that vast mass of matter , having for its base the surface of your estate , and for its apex the centre of the globe ? all of which it appears you would monopolize to yourself and your descendants forever ...
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... act , form , proceeding , or ceremony , can make this enclosure your private prop- erty . " § 5. It does indeed at first sight seem possible for the earth to become the exclusive possession of individ- uals by some process of equitable ...
... act , form , proceeding , or ceremony , can make this enclosure your private prop- erty . " § 5. It does indeed at first sight seem possible for the earth to become the exclusive possession of individ- uals by some process of equitable ...
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... Act § 7. After all , nobody does implicity believe in landlordism . We hear of estates being held under the king , that is , the state ; or of their being kept in trust for the public benefit ; and not that they are the in- alienable ...
... Act § 7. After all , nobody does implicity believe in landlordism . We hear of estates being held under the king , that is , the state ; or of their being kept in trust for the public benefit ; and not that they are the in- alienable ...
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... acts , or by the acts of their ancestors . given for their estates , equivalents of honestly - earned wealth , believing that they were investing their savings - in a legitimate manner . To justly estimate and liqui- 24 DECLARATION .
... acts , or by the acts of their ancestors . given for their estates , equivalents of honestly - earned wealth , believing that they were investing their savings - in a legitimate manner . To justly estimate and liqui- 24 DECLARATION .
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abolished abolition absolute political ethics action animals appropriation assert assumption become belongs chapter civilization claims compensation confusion declares deducible denial deny derived doctrine E. W. Kemble earth Edinburgh Review England English equal freedom equal rights equitable erty evolution evolution philosophy existing fact give given gratification greater Herbert Spencer human idea ignorance implied individual injustice James's Gazette joint rights Justice Laidler land nationalization land question land-owners land-ownership landless landlords law of equal letter liberty light and air matter and motion means ment merely natural media natural rights negro opinions original owner poor law possession Principal Brown principle private property produced by labor Professor Huxley Progress and Poverty property in land reason recognized rent right of property rights to land seems slavery slaves Social Statics society soil Spencerian supreme Synthetic Philosophy theory tion truth utterances valid violate wrong
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Página 15 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 32 - 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.
Página 312 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 33 - 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.
Página 16 - Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Página 197 - land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it.
Página 24 - A state of things so ordered would be in perfect harmony with the moral law. Under it all men would be equally landlords, all men would be alike free to become tenants. * * * Clearly, therefore, on such a system, the earth might be enclosed, occupied and cultivated, in entire subordination to the law of equal freedom.
Página 211 - If the heir was under age, the profits of the estates belonged to the lord, as also did the control of the marriage of the ward. Under the name of aids, the lord claimed stipulated sums from his tenants on the occasion of the knighting of his eldest son, the marriage of his eldest daughter, or his own capture in war.