Liberty and Law: Being an Attempt at the Refutation of the Individualism of Mr. Herbert Spencer and the Political EconomistsS. Sonnenschein, Lowery & Company, 1888 - 377 páginas |
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Página xiii
... ideas founded on the belief that some religion ( it does not matter which ) should be forced on society - His admiration of physical force - His theory of Liberty - Bentham - His defini- tion - Unsuited to present times - Begs the ...
... ideas founded on the belief that some religion ( it does not matter which ) should be forced on society - His admiration of physical force - His theory of Liberty - Bentham - His defini- tion - Unsuited to present times - Begs the ...
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... Ideas of Justice mostly crude - Justice and Liberty antithetical - Mr . H. George on Justice Mr. Spencer less scrupulous - M . de Laveleye still less so- Might makes right " -Mr . J. Rae- " Socialism a demand for justice Therefore ...
... Ideas of Justice mostly crude - Justice and Liberty antithetical - Mr . H. George on Justice Mr. Spencer less scrupulous - M . de Laveleye still less so- Might makes right " -Mr . J. Rae- " Socialism a demand for justice Therefore ...
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... ideas many writers appear to possess in respect to the exact significance of these terms . Indeed , the conception pre- sumed to be conveyed when the word Liberty is made use of has rarely been submitted to actual definition . It seems ...
... ideas many writers appear to possess in respect to the exact significance of these terms . Indeed , the conception pre- sumed to be conveyed when the word Liberty is made use of has rarely been submitted to actual definition . It seems ...
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... idea to be conveyed by the word , if it is to be made use of at all . Montesquieu , in his " Spirit of the Laws , " gives various de- finitions that have been current at different times and in 21bid , Introduction , sec . 5 . 1 Ibid , p ...
... idea to be conveyed by the word , if it is to be made use of at all . Montesquieu , in his " Spirit of the Laws , " gives various de- finitions that have been current at different times and in 21bid , Introduction , sec . 5 . 1 Ibid , p ...
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... idea that there was some connection between liberty and security for pro- perty , which was afterwards adopted by the political econo- mists as a deduction from their premises . Thus , Fox , in a speech in 1784 , expressed himself in ...
... idea that there was some connection between liberty and security for pro- perty , which was afterwards adopted by the political econo- mists as a deduction from their premises . Thus , Fox , in a speech in 1784 , expressed himself in ...
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A. R. Wallace absolutely abstract absurdity actions actual Adam Smith admit aggression amount applied arise assert Bastiat believe called capital capitalist cause cent civil law civilisation conceivable course declares definition deny doctrine economists equal Ethics evolution existence fact faculties favour force freedom freedom of contract give harmony Hegel human Ibid idea individual Individualists interest J. S. Mill Jevons justice labour land landlords large numbers Laveleye laws of nature legislation Leslie Stephen Liberal live matter means merely method Mill Montesquieu morality natural laws natural right nature of things Nihilism object organisation party phenomena philosophy Political Economy positive possible present Principles of Political production Professor profit pure question reason regard rent restraint result Roscher sense Sidgwick social organism Social Statics Socialists society Spencer theory tion true vote W. K. Clifford wages wealth whole words writers
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Página 204 - The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities.
Página 179 - Political economy, considered as a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator, proposes two distinct objects : first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves ; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services. It proposes to enrich both the people and the sovereign.
Página 44 - 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.
Página 63 - A great multitude of people are continually talking of the Law of Nature; and then they go on giving you their sentiments about what is right and what is wrong: and these sentiments, you are to understand, are so many chapters and sections of the Law of Nature.
Página 38 - 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...
Página 376 - All Christians believe that the blessed are the poor and humble, and those who are ill-used by the world ; that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven...
Página 144 - The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.
Página 179 - Writers on Political Economy profess to teach, or to investigate, the nature of Wealth, and the laws of its production and distribution: including, directly or remotely, the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind, or of any society of human beings, in respect to this universal object of human desire, is made prosperous or the reverse.
Página 53 - That thing is called free which exists from the necessity of its own nature alone, and is determined to action by itself alone. That thing, on the other hand, is called necessary, or rather compelled, which by another is determined to existence and action in a fixed and prescribed manner.
Página 50 - From this last consideration, which is a digression rather than a part of the argument, let us now return and sum up the reasons for regarding a society as an organism. It undergoes continuous growth. As it grows, its parts become unlike: it exhibits increase of structure. The unlike parts simultaneously assume activities of unlike kinds. These activities are not simply different, but their differences are so related as to make one another possible. The reciprocal aid thus given causes mutual dependence...