First Principles in PoliticsG.P.Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 322 páginas |
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Página xiv
... gives rise to human common- wealths . What is the essential difference between human society and animal society ? . To answer that question we must ask another . What is the essential difference between men and animals ? It is a ...
... gives rise to human common- wealths . What is the essential difference between human society and animal society ? . To answer that question we must ask another . What is the essential difference between men and animals ? It is a ...
Página liv
... gives rise , by meting out to the transgressor his due . Its second function is to deter the offender from repeating his offence , and others from imitating it . 290 Nor is it any real hardship to the punished person liv Summary.
... gives rise , by meting out to the transgressor his due . Its second function is to deter the offender from repeating his offence , and others from imitating it . 290 Nor is it any real hardship to the punished person liv Summary.
Página 5
... give heed only to the utterances of those who possess some intel- ligible claim to be our intellectual guides , what do we usually find ? We find exactly the same anarchy of thought . In those sciences , indeed , where we have to deal ...
... give heed only to the utterances of those who possess some intel- ligible claim to be our intellectual guides , what do we usually find ? We find exactly the same anarchy of thought . In those sciences , indeed , where we have to deal ...
Página 14
... gives the lie to a principle sacred from discussion and true in itself . Surely such a mind is not sound . Of the two faculties which ought to pull equally and together , one is smitten with atrophy , the other with hypertrophy . The ...
... gives the lie to a principle sacred from discussion and true in itself . Surely such a mind is not sound . Of the two faculties which ought to pull equally and together , one is smitten with atrophy , the other with hypertrophy . The ...
Página 19
... give rise to gang of robbers ; to a commonwealth , but to a anarchy plus the sword . Once more . Utility is , doubtless , a conspicuous note of civil polity . For civil polity is an in- strument of incalculable good to the human race ...
... give rise to gang of robbers ; to a commonwealth , but to a anarchy plus the sword . Once more . Utility is , doubtless , a conspicuous note of civil polity . For civil polity is an in- strument of incalculable good to the human race ...
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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.