 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 508 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Abolitionists - 1904 - 512 pages
...lays his corner-stone of society — to wit : " That the only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community...either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant," to interfere with his independence. With regard to Mormonism he maintains that society has no right... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Antislavery movements - 1904 - 422 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilised community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good,...either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant," to interfere with his independence. With regard to Mormonism, he maintains that society has no right... | |
 | Royal Sanitary Institute (Great Britain) - Public health - 1927 - 938 pages
...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. . . . His own good either physical or moral is not a sufficient warrant. . . . Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental and spiritual." Spencer... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1908 - 328 pages
...organized government? To argue, with this eminent writer, that the only purpose for which power should be exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is "to prevent harm to others," might mean to others, simply as fellow-individuals, or to others collectively, in... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 pages
...of action of any of their number, is__ self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...others. His -K ^"^JL'y*1" ' , . *"" " ~" — "-•~~~- ------ -~ ~ — ~ — •'«"?"•**"— owngood, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant....rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 860 pages
...purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against bis will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good,...either physical or moral, Is not a sufficient warrant. ("Liberty," pp. 21, 22; ed. 1859.) This fundamental canon of individualism, that, in the words of Mill,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1340 pages
...of action of any of their numbers is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, IB to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant He... | |
 | Percy Lewis Kaye - United States - 1910 - 560 pages
...of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized...rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others,... | |
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That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over... 
