...Spencer, when a young man, wrote a book called " Social Statics," in which he assumes as a first principle that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the like freedom of any other man." From this principle he tries to prove that society is simply a voluntary...

...injury to others ; or, to employ the language of Herbert Spencers: " Every man has freedom to do aught that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." The prohibitory operation of the law must be confined to the enforcement of the legal maxim, sic utere...

...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...

...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...

...liberty of each limited only by the like liberty of all, or by saying, Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. Repeatedly and emphatically as the philosopher has explained the genesis of the idea expressed by this...

...thing. That is why young Spencer could not draw any sound conclusion from his socalled " 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...

...however, remains to Mr. Spencer the same after forty years — that "every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." But this does not mean that all men are •Justice ; being Part IV of the Principles of Ethics. By...

...The formula of justice may accordingly be expressed by saying, "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he Infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Mr. Spencer incidentally defends with great ability the approximate validity of fixed intuitions or...

...'seeking it indirectly. He then reasons out as a first principle controlling the pursuit of happiness that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...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,...

...function of guiding us in this matter; we are alike taught, as the law of right social relationships, that •—-Every man has freedom to do all that he...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. Though further qualifications of the liberty of action thus asserted are necessary, yet we have seen...