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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... existence through a process of extracting that which was common to the races and peoples making up the new aggregate ; or whether it was based ( as some alleged ) on the law of nature , i.e. abstract justice as it presented itself to ...
... existence through a process of extracting that which was common to the races and peoples making up the new aggregate ; or whether it was based ( as some alleged ) on the law of nature , i.e. abstract justice as it presented itself to ...
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... existence , broke up into fragments which proved to have more vitality than the great whole from which they were detached . Clearly there is a limit to the size of a state ruled by a single government . Now what is the law of the limit ...
... existence , broke up into fragments which proved to have more vitality than the great whole from which they were detached . Clearly there is a limit to the size of a state ruled by a single government . Now what is the law of the limit ...
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... existence left to them . We have witnessed the most stupendous war this planet has yet seen , waged in America for the same great principle . In fine , the history of this century is the history of political integration . It is true ...
... existence left to them . We have witnessed the most stupendous war this planet has yet seen , waged in America for the same great principle . In fine , the history of this century is the history of political integration . It is true ...
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... existence of the English people ; and further back still , there are traces of a Celtic con- quest . It is known that a race of men inhabited this island before Irish , Gael , or Welsh had crossed the eastern waters . Where are the ...
... existence of the English people ; and further back still , there are traces of a Celtic con- quest . It is known that a race of men inhabited this island before Irish , Gael , or Welsh had crossed the eastern waters . Where are the ...
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... existence for the same reason as other kinds ; namely , because the race has been benefited by the institution of property . When Mr. Spencer looks forward to the time at which the community will openly assert what it now ( in his ...
... existence for the same reason as other kinds ; namely , because the race has been benefited by the institution of property . When Mr. Spencer looks forward to the time at which the community will openly assert what it now ( in his ...
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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...