| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...continuance of those marriages which arc the cause of it. John Stuart Mill says : — " The fact itself of causing the existence of a human being, is one of the most responsible actions in the range of life. To bestow a life which may be either a curse or a blessing — unless the being on whom it is... | |
| 1861 - 838 páginas
...continuance of those marriages which are the cause of it. John Stuart Mill says : — " The fact itself of causing the existence of a human being, is one of the most responsible actions in the range of life. To undertake this responsibility — to bestow a life •which may be either a curse or a blessing... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 páginas
...the strongest grounds for the former always, and in many cases fgr the latter also. The fact itself, of causing the existence of a human being, is one...most responsible actions in the range of human life. _ To undertake this responsibility — to bestow a " life which may be either a curse or a blessing... | |
| Arthur John Booth - 1869 - 238 páginas
...in itself, is not the sole condition of a moral union. One writer has even attempted to show that " causing the existence of a human being is one of the...curse or a blessing, unless the being on whom it is bestowed will have at least the ordinary chances of a desirable existence, is a crime against that... | |
| Arthur John Booth - 1869 - 236 páginas
...union. One writer has even attempted to show that " causing the existence of a human being is one ol the most responsible actions in the range of human...curse or a blessing, unless the being on whom it is bestowed will have at least the ordinary chances of a desirable existence, is a crime against that... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 332 páginas
...population ; and, on the other hand, it would be decidedly wrong of those who consider, with Mill, that ' causing the existence of a human being is one of the...responsible actions in the range of human life,' to urge that men should undertake this responsibility where the life bestowed is far more likely to be... | |
| Edward Bliss Foote - 1887 - 270 páginas
...society, and to the State. John Stuart Mill said a wise thing when he remarked that ' the fact itself of causing the existence of a human being is one of...most responsible actions in the range of human life.' " Doctor Winkles listened as if he had no opinion to express on the subject, and Doctor Hubbs went... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - 1887 - 272 páginas
...(says Mill, in his great little book On Liberty), of causing the existence of a human being, f"^fa'«-" is one of the most responsible actions in !"£»«%"„ the range of human life. To undertake ^a" this responsibility — to bestow a life which may be either a curse or a blessing — unless the... | |
| Ellis Ethelmer - 1893 - 258 páginas
...is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society. . . . The fact itself of causing the existence of a human being, is one...curse or a blessing — unless the being on whom it is bestowed will have at least the ordinary chances of a desirable existence, is a crime against that... | |
| George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1896 - 1002 páginas
...various reasons, their husbands assenting. By the way, Mr. J. S. Mill well remarks: " The fact itself of causing the existence of a human being is one of...most responsible actions in the range of human life." The law of Malthus is: There is a tendency in all animated existence to increase faster than the means... | |
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