| Henry George - Land use - 1892 - 346 pages
...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... | |
| Franklin Monroe Sprague - Socialism - 1892 - 528 pages
...due form of law to thrive at the expense of their fellow-men. Spencer, in his " Social Statics," says that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the like freedom of any other man." If this means » " Federalist," p. 224. 2 Rom. xiv. 7. 3 " Federalist,"... | |
| Henry George - Economics - 1911 - 326 pages
...faculties compatible with the possession of like liberty by every other man." Or, as he otherwise puts it, that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the eqnal freedom of any other man." The first deduction he makes from this " first principle" is the equal... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Politics, Practical - 1892 - 452 pages
...are alike taught, as the law of right social relationships, that — Every man has freedom to do att that he wills, provided 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... | |
| Newman Smyth - Christian ethics - 1892 - 526 pages
...formula of justice is contained in "the law of equal freedom." "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." (p. 46). The sentiment of justice, Mr. Spencer compounds by mixing in his moral chemistry certain feelings... | |
| Maurice de Baets - Christian ethics - 1892 - 424 pages
...limited only by the like liberties of all. This we do by saying : — Every man is free to do that wich he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . » « For the truth to be expressed is that each in carrying on the actions which constitute his... | |
| Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - Books - 1892 - 462 pages
...describes as the law of equal freedom, which he thus expresses : " Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." " The formula has to unite a positive element with a negative element. It must be positive in so far... | |
| Charles Mallory Williams, Cora May Williams - Ethics - 1892 - 608 pages
...somebody else." The formula of justice may be expressed thus : " Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." This is not to be interpreted as meaning that aggression is permissible as long as retaliation is permitted... | |
| Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 362 pages
...as the present. Formulated, the idea of justice is as follows : Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. This formula, it must be noted, does not countenance a superfluous interference with another's life,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Ethics - 1892 - 312 pages
...limited only by the like liberties of all. This we do by saying:—Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom; of any other man. § 28. A possible misapprehension must be guarded against. There are acts of aggression which the formula... | |
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