Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 páginas |
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... Human Happiness specified , and the first of them developed . A number of years passed - some ten , I think- before the edition was exhausted ; and as the demand seemed not great enough to warrant the setting up of type for a new ...
... Human Happiness specified , and the first of them developed . A number of years passed - some ten , I think- before the edition was exhausted ; and as the demand seemed not great enough to warrant the setting up of type for a new ...
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... human nature . Between nations the differences of opinion are con- spicuous enough . On contrasting the Hebrew patriarchs with their existing descendants , we observe that even in the same race the beau ideal of existence changes . The ...
... human nature . Between nations the differences of opinion are con- spicuous enough . On contrasting the Hebrew patriarchs with their existing descendants , we observe that even in the same race the beau ideal of existence changes . The ...
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... human nature so easy , the constitution of the social organism so simple , the causes of a people's conduct so obvious , that a general inspection can give to " collective wisdom " the insight requisite for law - making . If , without ...
... human nature so easy , the constitution of the social organism so simple , the causes of a people's conduct so obvious , that a general inspection can give to " collective wisdom " the insight requisite for law - making . If , without ...
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... humanity at large , a true philosophy of social life , and to found thereon a code of rules for the obtainment of " greatest happiness " is a task beyond the ability of any finite mind . THE MORAL - SENSE DOCTRINE . HAD we no other 14 ...
... humanity at large , a true philosophy of social life , and to found thereon a code of rules for the obtainment of " greatest happiness " is a task beyond the ability of any finite mind . THE MORAL - SENSE DOCTRINE . HAD we no other 14 ...
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... human mind takes cog- nizance of measurable quantity by a faculty which , to carry out the analogy , let us term a geometric sense . By the help of this we estimate the linear dimensions , surfaces , and bulks of surrounding objects ...
... human mind takes cog- nizance of measurable quantity by a faculty which , to carry out the analogy , let us term a geometric sense . By the help of this we estimate the linear dimensions , surfaces , and bulks of surrounding objects ...
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Página 165 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Página 55 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 378 - Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Página 96 - Act" (9th of George 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 62 - 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 46 - 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 62 - 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 379 - Therefore, before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant...
Página 379 - For where no covenant hath preceded, there hath no right been transferred, and every man has right to every thing; and consequently, no action can be unjust. But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust: and the definition of INJUSTICE is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust, is just.
Página 190 - ... and means whatsoever, all and every such person or persons as shall, at any time hereafter, attempt or enterprise the destruction, invasion, detriment, or annoyance of the...