First Principles in PoliticsG.P.Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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Página vii
... possessed by the human race alone . And the root of the capacity lies in this : that man — and man alone - is animal rationale . Hence it is that I believe in the doctrine of Natural Right . And I think one chief cause of the wide ...
... possessed by the human race alone . And the root of the capacity lies in this : that man — and man alone - is animal rationale . Hence it is that I believe in the doctrine of Natural Right . And I think one chief cause of the wide ...
Página xi
... possess that character of necessity which is the essence of law This is true , for example , of the laws of conduct pre- sented to us by Utilitarian ethics , and of the laws of comfort from which they are derived · It is true , for the ...
... possess that character of necessity which is the essence of law This is true , for example , of the laws of conduct pre- sented to us by Utilitarian ethics , and of the laws of comfort from which they are derived · It is true , for the ...
Página xiii
... possesses exactly the same distinctive characteristics in the earliest annals of our race as in the latest ; and one of them is that he is a political animal · So much is certain . Equally certain is it that the polity which earliest ...
... possesses exactly the same distinctive characteristics in the earliest annals of our race as in the latest ; and one of them is that he is a political animal · So much is certain . Equally certain is it that the polity which earliest ...
Página xiv
... possess also a power of associating their experience by an exercise of memory and expectant imagination ( facultas æstimativa ) which presents some analogy with - but is not - Understanding ; they have not that apprehension of general ...
... possess also a power of associating their experience by an exercise of memory and expectant imagination ( facultas æstimativa ) which presents some analogy with - but is not - Understanding ; they have not that apprehension of general ...
Página xvii
... popular mind the truth that man does possess certain rights as man • It is not necessary here to consider the various ways in PAGE 33 3833 35 36 36 · 37 which these rights have been classified by philos- ophers and Summary xvii.
... popular mind the truth that man does possess certain rights as man • It is not necessary here to consider the various ways in PAGE 33 3833 35 36 36 · 37 which these rights have been classified by philos- ophers and Summary xvii.
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absolute animal Aquinas Aristotle assuredly Benoist Bluntschli called chapter civil civilised classes common commonwealth COMPULSORY VOTING conception condition conscience consider Considerations on Representative constitutional contract corruption crime criminal criminal anthropologists deputies doctrine doubt duty election electors England English equal ethical evil existence expression fact faculty False Democracy Force Publique France freedom French French Revolution function House of Lords human nature Ibid idea individual insists intellectual interests Jacobin justice labour legislation liberty majority marriage matter means ment Mill moral nation observe organised organism passions penal person philosophers physical possess practical present primogeniture principle punishment question realised reason recognised reform regard Representative Government Rousseau sanction self-government sense Sir Henry Maine social society sophisms sovereign sovereignty Summa Theologica suppose things tion Trade Unions true truth universal suffrage virtue vote Whigs words wrong
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Página 289 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Página 89 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Página 61 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government...
Página 67 - Impunity and remissness for certain are the bane of a commonwealth. But here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Página 153 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página xxx - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Página 210 - The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes.
Página 67 - And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing. For God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious.
Página 224 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 3 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.