The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties... Fraser's Magazine - Page 851873Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...'principle' that he conceives himself to have established : — ' The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...'principle' that he conceives himself to have established : — ' The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...then enunciates his own view in the following passage :— The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...society with the individual in the way of compulsion or control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion... | |
| Scotland - 1873 - 790 pages
...indifference, and that is also an evil. He then goes on to assert that one very simple principle ought to govern absolutely the dealings of society with...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, — viz., that self-protection is the sole end for which mankind arc warranted individually or collectively... | |
| George Vasey (miscellaneous writer.) - Liberty - 1877 - 200 pages
...professions. 2. The object of Mr. Mill's Essay (to use his own words, page 6)— " Is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
| Robert Carter Pitman - Alcoholic beverage industry - 1877 - 424 pages
...his own words. In the introduction to his Essay he says : " The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
| Mormons - 1884 - 506 pages
...advances sound principles as follows: ''The object of this essay (Essay on Liberty) is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the way of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
| W. W. Satterlee - Prohibition - 1883 - 196 pages
...essay on liberty with the following, among other things: " The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...individual, in the way of compulsion and control, 'whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of... | |
| Edward Bliss Foote - Divorce - 1884 - 76 pages
...characters to fashion themselves on the model of its own. * * * The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the individual in the way of compulsion and control. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1340 pages
...550. John Stuart Mill, In his great work on Liberty, says : "The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely...the Individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public... | |
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