Individualism, a System of PoliticsMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 393 pages Chapter IX appeared originally in the Westminster review (July, 1886) cf. Pref. |
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... admit of central action with- out weakening local liberty . And the solution is Integration with Decentralisation , -though this is , of course , merely a re - stating of the problem in fewer words . For what is the precise nature of ...
... admit of central action with- out weakening local liberty . And the solution is Integration with Decentralisation , -though this is , of course , merely a re - stating of the problem in fewer words . For what is the precise nature of ...
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... admitting all these charges , shall we in despair look elsewhere for the form of government of the future , or shall we rather seek to discover the several causes of these observed diseases , and if possible the cure ? I hardly feel ...
... admitting all these charges , shall we in despair look elsewhere for the form of government of the future , or shall we rather seek to discover the several causes of these observed diseases , and if possible the cure ? I hardly feel ...
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... admit , that Hodge's several views on things in general are not of the most enlightened character . And I for one positively decline to submit passively to his dictation in all the numerous concerns of life which are usually regarded as ...
... admit , that Hodge's several views on things in general are not of the most enlightened character . And I for one positively decline to submit passively to his dictation in all the numerous concerns of life which are usually regarded as ...
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Wordsworth Donisthorpe. am at once prepared to admit and to contend that every citizen is not only morally justified but also morally bound to take his share in legislation so far as this duty of safeguarding his own liberty is concerned ...
Wordsworth Donisthorpe. am at once prepared to admit and to contend that every citizen is not only morally justified but also morally bound to take his share in legislation so far as this duty of safeguarding his own liberty is concerned ...
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... admit of the local publication and discussion of the question before the country , and the taking of the general opinion piecemeal in the several localities . This system was adopted by the late Emperor of the French . But this very Το ...
... admit of the local publication and discussion of the question before the country , and the taking of the general opinion piecemeal in the several localities . This system was adopted by the late Emperor of the French . But this very Το ...
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Page 117 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 271 - 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...
Page 366 - If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stock companies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of the government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the...
Page 129 - What capital does for production, is to afford the shelter, protection, tools and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the labourers during the process.
Page 327 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Page 40 - Nam cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt: delecta ex iis et consociata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest.
Page 11 - Certain interests are common to all parts of a nation, such as the enactment of its general laws and the maintenance of its foreign relations. Other interests are peculiar to certain parts of the nation, such, for instance, as the business of the several townships.
Page 126 - Austin avoided this mistake, but perhaps in defining property as " a right over a determinate thing, indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition, and unlimited in point of duration...