...strike bothas a somewhat significant fact that Herbert Spencer's central axiom of 'Social Statics,' 'every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man' (Social Statics, p. 121), is but a feeble echo of our Lord's words, ' therefore all things whatsoever...

..."Social Statics, or the Conditions essential to Human Happiness " (p. 121) ; viz., that "every mail has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man," a principle which he declares to be " a law of right social relationships." Constitutional liberty...

...and it unavoidably follows that they have equal rights to the use of this world. For if each of them 'has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other,' then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all...

...and it unavoidably follows that they have equal rights to the use of this world. For if each of them has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other, then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all...

...thus stated the principle of liberty, or the law, as he terms it, of right social relationship: — "Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." And the steps of the argument by which he reaches that conclusion lie himself summarises thus, —...

...the rights of the Individual. As stated in its extremest form by Mr. Spencer, this doctrine proclaims that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other " man1." It is to the assertion of this doctrine in more or less modified forms that we owe most of...

...That is why young Spencer could not draw any sound conclusion from his so-called " principle : " " that every man has freedom to do all that he wills provided he does not infringe on the like freedom of any other man," because no one can do any wrong act, without...

...That is why young Spencer could not draw any sound conclusion from his so-called " principle : " " that every man has freedom to do all that he wills provided he does not infringe on the like freedom of any other man," because no one can do any wrong act, without...

...equalities of opportunity, without which the law of Equal Freedom is of little use to us. That law is that "every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided that he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." But what is the good of such freedom, when...

...law not of man's devising, but of his discovery only — the social law of civilized human nature, that " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." In some few directions the pressure of tyrannic conventionalism has led to union in opposition. For...