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... True , a man sac- rifices something of what Rousseau assumes to have been the primitive freedom of his race when he lives in a com- munity . He has to obey laws and accept conventions . But in so doing he enters into a " social pact ...
... True , a man sac- rifices something of what Rousseau assumes to have been the primitive freedom of his race when he lives in a com- munity . He has to obey laws and accept conventions . But in so doing he enters into a " social pact ...
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... true that somehow , if not originally at some dateable time and in some definable place and by some producable document , man has become subject to his fellow men in various degrees of obligation . We do not know of any condition of ...
... true that somehow , if not originally at some dateable time and in some definable place and by some producable document , man has become subject to his fellow men in various degrees of obligation . We do not know of any condition of ...
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... opinion since Voltaire . Yet it is true that he is the central man , 1 Bury , " History of Freedom of Thought , " p . 156 . standing between an age when persecution was rife , free- 15 CHAPTER II VOLTAIRE AND FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.
... opinion since Voltaire . Yet it is true that he is the central man , 1 Bury , " History of Freedom of Thought , " p . 156 . standing between an age when persecution was rife , free- 15 CHAPTER II VOLTAIRE AND FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.
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... true was not merely to err ; it was to commit deadly sin . The secular arm must punish what the spiri- tual power condemned . The connection of the church with the actual perpetration of torture and death became more immediate as the ...
... true was not merely to err ; it was to commit deadly sin . The secular arm must punish what the spiri- tual power condemned . The connection of the church with the actual perpetration of torture and death became more immediate as the ...
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... true , some rulers who , as a Catholic historian says of Queen Mary , " conscientiously liked to persecute ; " some , like Philip II . of Spain , who gloated over agony - that sovereign cried to a nobleman on his way to be burnt , " if ...
... true , some rulers who , as a Catholic historian says of Queen Mary , " conscientiously liked to persecute ; " some , like Philip II . of Spain , who gloated over agony - that sovereign cried to a nobleman on his way to be burnt , " if ...
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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.