English Political TheoryMethuen, 1920 - 177 páginas |
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A. D. LINDSAY abstract anarchy argued association Bentham Benthamite Burke Cæsar centralisation century CHAPTER Chartist Church claims complete conception conservatism create creed demand democracy democratic Demy 8vo despotism Divine Right doctrinaire doctrine economic England English political theory equality ethics existence fact faith Fcap Filmer freedom function G. D. H. COLE gild Godwin greatest number guarantee Guild Guild Socialist happiness Hegelian Hobbes Hooker human idea ideals imprescriptible rights individual industrial institutions King labour League of Nations Leviathan Liberalism liberty live logical medieval ment Mill mind modern moral Natural Law natural rights never organisation Paine Parliament peace philosophy pleasure practical principle problem psychology Radicalism realised reform Revolution Rousseau Second Edition social contract social organism social theory Socialist society sovereign sovereignty Spencer State-sovereignty T. H. Green theorists things thought tion true truth Tudor Nationalism tyranny unity Utilitarian utility Utopia Whiggism Whigs Wycliffe
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Página 65 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 29 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Página 152 - We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence ; For it is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.
Página 125 - Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.
Página 82 - 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 29 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 81 - Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil...
Página 65 - The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property.
Página 41 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his Word; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do; or to say that a king cannot do this or that; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.