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Social Statics: Abridged and Revised ; Together with The Man Versus the State - Page 55
by Herbert Spencer - 1892 - 431 pages
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The North British Review, Volume 15

English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...principle he finds in the following definition of justice : — " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." This, he says, is the sole law of the social relationship : whatever action or institution respects...
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Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...first principle as scarcely to need a separate statement. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, it is manifest that he has a claim to his life : for without it he can do nothing that he has willed...
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An analytical catalogue of mr. Chapman's publications

John Chapman - English literature - 1852 - 112 pages
...after summing up the evidence, finally states it to be, that " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man:" adding, that " though further qualifications of the liberty of action, thus asserted, may be necessary,...
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Commercial Review of the South and West: A Monthly Journal of ..., Volume 22

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1857 - 684 pages
...The formulary of this new revelation is conveniently brief. " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." In this form is the new law expressed by the English Spencer.* It is announced in a still broader form...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 14

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1851 - 604 pages
...freedom of any other mem. Though further qualifications of the liberty of action thus asserted may be necessary, yet we have seen that in the just regulation of a community no further HUMAN PROGRE qualifications of it can b< must ever remain for priv; therefore, adopt this law oi which...
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Social Statics: Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1868 - 544 pages
...this is a logical deduction from our first principle, that every man has freedom to do all that he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, may be readily cleared up by comparing the respective degrees of freedom assumed in such a case by...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 33

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1861 - 866 pages
...of the book, first condition of human happiness, is that — Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man; and his whole book is professedly devoted to prove and develope this principle. He thinks he has stated...
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The Science of Evil

Joel Moody - Good and evil - 1871 - 358 pages
...limited only by the like liberty of all; and say with Spencer: " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man," then, it is no wrong for him to injure himself nor any animal belonging to himself; whereas, it is...
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 41

Science - 1892 - 994 pages
...first principle controlling the pursuit of happiness that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Applications of this first principle constituted the rest of the original volume. Many of these applications,...
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Social statics, or, The conditions essential to human happiness specified ...

Herbert Spencer - Human beings - 1873 - 556 pages
...taught as the law of right social relationships, that — Emery man has freedom to do all that he witts, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any...qualifications of the liberty of action thus asserted may be necessary, yet we have seen (p. 106) that in the just regulation of a community no further qualifications...
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