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... minds of men , over every caste and shade of intellect , as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762. " Born at Geneva in 1712 , Rousseau was by turns an engraver , a footman , a music teacher , an ambassador's sec ...
... minds of men , over every caste and shade of intellect , as that which emanated from Rousseau between 1749 and 1762. " Born at Geneva in 1712 , Rousseau was by turns an engraver , a footman , a music teacher , an ambassador's sec ...
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... mind would not yet bear the propo- sition ; " but even if all the slaves could have been freed , Jefferson confessed that " no preparation would render it expedient to admit them to the full rights of citizenship by making them a part ...
... mind would not yet bear the propo- sition ; " but even if all the slaves could have been freed , Jefferson confessed that " no preparation would render it expedient to admit them to the full rights of citizenship by making them a part ...
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Ernest Scott. by a Declaration of Duties . The observation discovered a mind that reflected , and it only erred by not reflecting far enough . A declaration of rights is , by reciprocity , a decla- ration of duties also . Whatever is my ...
Ernest Scott. by a Declaration of Duties . The observation discovered a mind that reflected , and it only erred by not reflecting far enough . A declaration of rights is , by reciprocity , a decla- ration of duties also . Whatever is my ...
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... minds made obedient subjects . There was an end to that point of view as soon as men perceived that the true aim of government is to promote the good of the governed , not to compel people to submit themselves to the will of rulers ...
... minds made obedient subjects . There was an end to that point of view as soon as men perceived that the true aim of government is to promote the good of the governed , not to compel people to submit themselves to the will of rulers ...
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... minds . " But after all , " says Locke , " the principal considera- tion , and which absolutely determines this ... mind , there will be no safety for me in following it . No way whatsoever that I shall walk in against the dictates ...
... minds . " But after all , " says Locke , " the principal considera- tion , and which absolutely determines this ... mind , there will be no safety for me in following it . No way whatsoever that I shall walk in against the dictates ...
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Page 22 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Page 71 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Page 26 - He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
Page 140 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 138 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 110 - I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress.
Page 146 - A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Page 322 - We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the Nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power.
Page 200 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.