...well as political economists and divines, might then have been dispensed with. So says Thomas Paine. ' Society is produced by our wants, and ' government by our wickedness : the former promotes our hap' piness positively, by uniting our affections ; the latter nega' tively, by restraining our vices....

...which, arising from a variety of connexions, will be far more numerous and complicated. — Blackstone. Some writers have so confounded society with government,...happiness positively, by uniting our affections : the litter, B 2 negatively, by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates...

...which, arising from a variety of connexions, will be far more numerous and complicated. — Blackstone. Some writers have so confounded society with government,...government by our wickedness; the former promotes our hap. piness positively, by uniting our affections : the latter negatively, by restraining our vices....

...order, as contradistinguished from liberty, or man in a state of nature. " Society," says Paine, " is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by unitingour affections ; the latter negatively by restraining our vices." This is an ingenious distinction...

...individual right with the aggregate of social strength. (Notes to Say's Pol. Econ.) Society, says Paine, is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness...— the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. Society, in every state, is a blessing ; but government, even its best state, is but a necessary evil....

...contradistinguished from liberty, or man in a state of nature. " Society," says Paine, " is produced by our wauls, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes...; the latter negatively by restraining our vices." This is an ingenious distinction ; but it would have been more correct to say, that society is produced...

...relations in which they stand, and the laws of their own organization. — Volney's Ruins. Government. — Some writers have so confounded Society with Government,...whereas they are not only different, but have different origina. Society is produced by "our wants, and Government by our wickedness; the former promotes our...

...remark of the author of " Common Sense :"* — " Society and government are different in themselves, and have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society is in every state a blessing ; government, even in its best state, but a necessary evil." There...

...protection, equal rights, justice and happiness.1 It is the remark of a distinguished writer, that "society is produced by our wants, and government...our wickedness ; the former promotes our happiness posuively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages...

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