The Principles of State Interference: Four Essays on the Political Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, J.S. Mill, and T.H. Green

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S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1896 - 172 Seiten

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Seite 109 - And now I say unto you ; Refrain from these men, and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work, be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Seite 167 - Scotsman, 14. The Co-Operative Commonwealth. LAURENCE GRONLUND. " An independent exposition of the Socialism ot the Marx school."— Contemporary Review. 15. Essays and Addresses. BERNARD BOSANQUET, MA (Oxon. ). " Ought to be in the hands of every student of the Nineteenth Century spirit." — Echo. " No one can complain of not being able to understand what Mr. Bosanquet means."— Pall Mall Gazette. 16. Charity Organisation. C.-S. LOCH, Secretary to Charity Organisation Society.
Seite 81 - So that, however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
Seite 43 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Seite 155 - Though in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community, there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate...
Seite 89 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Seite 167 - MA (Oxon.). New Edition, with two additional Essays on HUMAN EVOLUTION. " One of the most suggestive books we have met with.
Seite 91 - Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
Seite 81 - a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws"; but freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it...
Seite 155 - And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

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