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... causes , running through the moral and social as well as , and more clearly than , through the physical system , which , in the plan of man's nature , appear in most wise and beneficent preparations for a good and just society . We wish ...
... causes , running through the moral and social as well as , and more clearly than , through the physical system , which , in the plan of man's nature , appear in most wise and beneficent preparations for a good and just society . We wish ...
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... cause of implanting a sense of obligation in his nature is apparent , for this is the great controlling force - this ... caused by invasions of property . These three considerations , then the general consent of mankind embodying rights ...
... cause of implanting a sense of obligation in his nature is apparent , for this is the great controlling force - this ... caused by invasions of property . These three considerations , then the general consent of mankind embodying rights ...
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... , but is no exciting cause of virtue , and has nothing heavenly about it . It is possible , also , since obligations are external perform- ances , that it may be right to refuse to 2 GENERAL EXPLANATION OF RIGHTS . 17.
... , but is no exciting cause of virtue , and has nothing heavenly about it . It is possible , also , since obligations are external perform- ances , that it may be right to refuse to 2 GENERAL EXPLANATION OF RIGHTS . 17.
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... cause this is demanded by the moral sentiment or by the supposed good of the community , or for other plausible reasons . Thus it appears that it is not wholly peculiar to rights and obligations that they can be protected or made to be ...
... cause this is demanded by the moral sentiment or by the supposed good of the community , or for other plausible reasons . Thus it appears that it is not wholly peculiar to rights and obligations that they can be protected or made to be ...
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... cause to the feelings of others , insults , exposure of them to public ridicule , are of enough account , a personal right is clearly violated ; but there are a thousand petty provo- cations and depreciations of others which can no more ...
... cause to the feelings of others , insults , exposure of them to public ridicule , are of enough account , a personal right is clearly violated ; but there are a thousand petty provo- cations and depreciations of others which can no more ...
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Page 249 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Page 411 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 203 - If a determinate human superior, not in a habit of obedience to a like superior, receive habitual obedience from the bulk of a given society, that determinate superior is sovereign in that society, and the society (including the superior) is a society political and independent.
Page 254 - But with regard to the merely contingent or, as it may be called, constructive injury which a person causes to society, by conduct which neither violates any specific duty to the public, nor occasions perceptible hurt to any assignable individual except himself ; the inconvenience is one which society can afford to bear, for the sake of the greater good of human freedom.
Page 338 - ... for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Page 332 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 169 - Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth ; the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Page 412 - It follows, lastly, that since the king or magistrate holds his authority of the people, both originally and naturally for their good in the first place, and not his own, then may the people, as oft as they shall judge it for the best, either choose him or reject him, retain him or depose him, though no tyrant, merely by the liberty and right of freeborn men to be governed as seems to them best.
Page 332 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Page 255 - In the first place, it must by no means be supposed, because damage, or probability of damage, to the interests of others can alone justify the interference of society, that therefore it always does justify such interference. In many cases an individual, in pursuing a legitimate object, necessarily and therefore legitimately causes pain or loss to others, or intercepts a good which they had a reasonable hope of obtaining.