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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... societies of different types , past and present : being fortunate enough to secure the services of gentlemen competent to ... society having a known history ) its development . On the other hand , the collected Extracts , serving as ...
... societies of different types , past and present : being fortunate enough to secure the services of gentlemen competent to ... society having a known history ) its development . On the other hand , the collected Extracts , serving as ...
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... societies of various types , and in various stages of evolution , so arranged as to furnish the means of readily ... society at that period ; while by reading down each column , there may be gained a knowledge of the modifications ...
... societies of various types , and in various stages of evolution , so arranged as to furnish the means of readily ... society at that period ; while by reading down each column , there may be gained a knowledge of the modifications ...
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... society would even now begin to decay . It is required to reconcile these contradictory theories . -And this synonyme for " greatest happiness " -this " utility " -what shall be comprised under it ? The million would confine it to the ...
... society would even now begin to decay . It is required to reconcile these contradictory theories . -And this synonyme for " greatest happiness " -this " utility " -what shall be comprised under it ? The million would confine it to the ...
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... the benefit of the workmen and to the interest of the master ; that , * See Anti - Slavery's Society's Report for 1847 ; and Evidence before Parliamentary Committee , 1848 . FAILURE OF RELIEF - MEASURES . 21 namely , in 20 INTRODUCTION .
... the benefit of the workmen and to the interest of the master ; that , * See Anti - Slavery's Society's Report for 1847 ; and Evidence before Parliamentary Committee , 1848 . FAILURE OF RELIEF - MEASURES . 21 namely , in 20 INTRODUCTION .
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... society . It need excite no surprise when legisla- tion , based upon the theories thus elaborated , fails . Rath- er would its success afford matter for extreme astonish- ment . Considering that men as yet so imperfectly under- stand ...
... society . It need excite no surprise when legisla- tion , based upon the theories thus elaborated , fails . Rath- er would its success afford matter for extreme astonish- ment . Considering that men as yet so imperfectly under- stand ...
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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...