Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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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 physical development was ...
... 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 physical development was ...
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... individual . So we may say , not only that every epoch and every people has its peculiar conceptions of happiness ... individuals contain the same combination of elements . Duplicate men are not to be found . There is in each a different ...
... individual . So we may say , not only that every epoch and every people has its peculiar conceptions of happiness ... individuals contain the same combination of elements . Duplicate men are not to be found . There is in each a different ...
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... individual cases ? Does not the experi ence 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 ...
... individual cases ? Does not the experi ence 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 ...
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... individual character , of the effects of religions , customs , superstitions , prejudices , of the mental tendencies of the age , of the probabilities of future events , & c . , & c .; and then , grasping at once the multiplied ...
... individual character , of the effects of religions , customs , superstitions , prejudices , 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 commu- nity is composed , that is , their pleasures and their secur- ity , 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 commu- nity is composed , that is , their pleasures and their secur- ity , 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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Página 515 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Página 192 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 145 - 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 354 - The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Página 242 - 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.
Página 145 - 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 393 - ... and conquer, by all fitting ways, enterprises and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall at any time hereafter...
Página 109 - 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...
Página 413 - If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
Página 230 - 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...