 | Wordsworth Donisthorpe - 1889 - 420 pages
...recreate the universe out of a single physical principle. Moreover, whence sprang this grand moral principle that " a man has inalienable rights over himself, over his own faculties and possessions " ? This, even if true now, was not always true. It is meaningless when applied to "bears and lions,"... | |
 | Wordsworth Donisthorpe - 1889 - 416 pages
...recreate the universe out of a single physical principle. Moreover, whence sprang this grand moral principle that " a man has inalienable rights over...himself, over his own faculties and possessions''! This, even if true now, was not always true. It is meaningless whon applied to "bears and lions," and... | |
 | Wordsworth Donisthorpe - 1894 - 420 pages
...recreate the universe out of a single physical principle. Moreover, whence sprang this grand moral principle that " a man has inalienable rights over himself, over his own faculties and possessions " ? This, even if true now, was not always true. It is meaningless when applied to " bears and lions,"... | |
 | Edward Stringham - 2007 - 718 pages
...Herbert was drawn to a similar anti-statist position. As he argued in 1 885, They are. ..the necessary deductions from the great. principle — that a man...drawn step by step to the same or to very similar conclusions.7*1 He was aware that there were tew men who were prepared to "loyally submit themselves... | |
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... of that cell which may be called " the Empire of the Individual" ? We must discard all attempts to derive just laws from a single high moral principle. The attempt is as vain as that of Descartes to recreate the universe out of a single physical principle.... 