Social Statics: Abridged and Revised; Together with The Man Versus the StateD. Appleton, 1892 - 431 páginas |
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... 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 edition , it was decided to import an edition from America , where the work had been ...
... 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 edition , it was decided to import an edition from America , where the work had been ...
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... passed , social changes have diminished or destroyed the relevancy of some of these references . It has seemed best , however , to leave them as they were ; partly because the arguments remain equally valid though their data are altered ...
... passed , social changes have diminished or destroyed the relevancy of some of these references . It has seemed best , however , to leave them as they were ; partly because the arguments remain equally valid though their data are altered ...
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... or incompleteness of Acts previously passed . Men are never- * See Anti - Slavery Society's Report for 1847 ; and Evidence before Parliamentary Committee , 1848 . theless still discontented with the Poor Laws , and we 12 SOCIAL STATICS. ̧.
... or incompleteness of Acts previously passed . Men are never- * See Anti - Slavery Society's Report for 1847 ; and Evidence before Parliamentary Committee , 1848 . theless still discontented with the Poor Laws , and we 12 SOCIAL STATICS. ̧.
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... has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good : whatever takes from it , bad . And should a passing gleam of generosity lead him to open his purse , he is pretty sure afterwards to THE MORAL - SENSE DOCTRINE . 19.
... has an absolute horror . Whatever adds to his store seems to him good : whatever takes from it , bad . And should a passing gleam of generosity lead him to open his purse , he is pretty sure afterwards to THE MORAL - SENSE DOCTRINE . 19.
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... passing of the host . In so obeying the promptings of certain sentiments , he annoys the spectators ; and were the above modified expression of the law correct , would be blame- able . The fault , however , is not with him , but with ...
... passing of the host . In so obeying the promptings of certain sentiments , he annoys the spectators ; and were the above modified expression of the law correct , would be blame- able . The fault , however , is not with him , but with ...
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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...