It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Social Justice: A Critical Essay - Page 240by Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1900 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, -the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
| Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...independence is of right absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual a sovereign. ' It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that this doctrine...or of young persons below the age which the law may tix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a slate to require being taken care of... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young per-, sons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...of right, absolute ••Over himsellpo'ver his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. I \ It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that \ this doctrine is meant to apply only to human i beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereig"n._ It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...imparting some uncertainty to both his argument and its issue. He tells us, for instance, that his doctrine is ' meant to apply only to human beings in ' the maturity of their faculties.' Children and young persons below the age fixed by law as that of manhood and womanhood are excluded... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...down in the * P- 21. \ P. 26. J P. 33. § P. 41. || P. 95. IT P. 24. ** P. 43. ft P. 45. previous page is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. And that* " despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...conduct from which it is desired to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
| English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...conduct from which it is desired to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this...which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against... | |
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