Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... Constitutional forms mean this . Political freedom means this . Democracy means this . In societies , associations , joint - stock companies , we have new agencies occupying fields filled in less advanced times and countries by the ...
... Constitutional forms mean this . Political freedom means this . Democracy means this . In societies , associations , joint - stock companies , we have new agencies occupying fields filled in less advanced times and countries by the ...
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... constitution . as now . § 2 . Had we no other inducement to eat than that arising from the prospect of certain advantages to be thereby obtained , it is scarcely probable that our bodies would be so well cared for One can quite imagine ...
... constitution . as now . § 2 . Had we no other inducement to eat than that arising from the prospect of certain advantages to be thereby obtained , it is scarcely probable that our bodies would be so well cared for One can quite imagine ...
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... constitution of things , we are compelled to admit this same " beneficent necessity . " There is no alternative . Either society has laws , or it has not . If it has not , there can be no order , no certainty , no system in its ...
... constitution of things , we are compelled to admit this same " beneficent necessity . " There is no alternative . Either society has laws , or it has not . If it has not , there can be no order , no certainty , no system in its ...
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... constitution to conditions . This is true of everything that lives . Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil , or become sickly when de- prived of light , or die outright if removed to a cold climate ? it is because the harmony between its ...
... constitution to conditions . This is true of everything that lives . Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil , or become sickly when de- prived of light , or die outright if removed to a cold climate ? it is because the harmony between its ...
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... constitution to conditions is not the cause , what is the cause ? There are none , however , who can with anything like con- sistency combat this doctrine ; for all use arguments that pre- suppose its truth . Even those to whose ...
... constitution to conditions is not the cause , what is the cause ? There are none , however , who can with anything like con- sistency combat this doctrine ; for all use arguments that pre- suppose its truth . Even those to whose ...
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Página 108 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Página 127 - 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, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 207 - 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...
Página 219 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Página 65 - Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity. Instead of civilization being artificial, it is a part of nature; all of a piece with the development of the embryo or the unfolding of a flower. The modifications mankind have undergone, and are still undergoing, result from a law underlying the whole organic creation; and provided the human race continues, and the constitution of things remains the same, those modifications must end in completeness.
Página 126 - 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 15 - It has been shown that the happiness of the individuals, of whom a community is composed, that is their pleasures and their security, is the end and the sole end which the legislator ought to have in view : the sole standard, in conformity to which each individual ought, as far as depends upon the legislator, to be made to fashion his behaviour.
Página 474 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities and aspirations and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that, while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future ; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.
Página 123 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body — society. Instead of leasing his acres from an isolated proprietor, the farmer would lease them from the nation. Instead of paying his rent to the agent of Sir John or his Grace, he would pay it to an agent or deputy agent of the community. Stewards would be public officials instead of private ones, and tenancy the...
Página 323 - It seems hard that widows and orphans should be left to struggle for life or death. Nevertheless, when regarded not separately, but in connection with the interests of universal humanity, these harsh fatalities are seen to be full of the highest beneficence — the same beneficence which brings to early graves the children of diseased parents, and singles out the low-spirited, the intemperate, and the debilitated as the victims of an epidemic.