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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... moral condition of the people . " To apply some of these conclusions to practical questions of the day : Local areas should be left to the natural delimita- tion of voluntary combinations . And areas should overlap as naturally as the ...
... moral condition of the people . " To apply some of these conclusions to practical questions of the day : Local areas should be left to the natural delimita- tion of voluntary combinations . And areas should overlap as naturally as the ...
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... moral right , to see that his own liberty is not infringed upon by his neighbours under the pretence of safeguarding their liberties . Any attempt of the sort he is morally justified in resisting by force if necessary . He is not bound ...
... moral right , to see that his own liberty is not infringed upon by his neighbours under the pretence of safeguarding their liberties . Any attempt of the sort he is morally justified in resisting by force if necessary . He is not bound ...
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... moral claim on the part of the poorest section of the community -a right to live . Others say it is a tribute to the national sentiment , the offspring of pity , and in the same category with the laws against cruelty to animals ; while ...
... moral claim on the part of the poorest section of the community -a right to live . Others say it is a tribute to the national sentiment , the offspring of pity , and in the same category with the laws against cruelty to animals ; while ...
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... moral , and material advancement . The conclusion above all others which we desire to enforce is , that any scheme , however well - inten- tioned it may be , will indefinitely increase every evil it seeks to alleviate if it lessens ...
... moral , and material advancement . The conclusion above all others which we desire to enforce is , that any scheme , however well - inten- tioned it may be , will indefinitely increase every evil it seeks to alleviate if it lessens ...
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... moral and an economic point of view . The clergy say they have been rendered more independent of their flocks and are no longer brought so much into collision with them in ascertaining the amount of their demands . Surely this is ...
... moral and an economic point of view . The clergy say they have been rendered more independent of their flocks and are no longer brought so much into collision with them in ascertaining the amount of their demands . Surely this is ...
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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...