Individual Freedom: The Germ of National Progress and Permanence, an Address Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, on November 7th, 1895Harrison & Sons, printers, 1896 - 79 |
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Adam Smith Alexander Hamilton American Autocracy brotherhood capital and labour civilization conflict consolidation create departments of power despotism dividuals Divinity duty EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION enfeeblement equally essen essential unit exercise favour free individual germ of human GERM OF NATIONAL Hamilton hand honour hope human faculties human heart human race humanity at large humblest ignorance and servility independence individual conscience individual freedom individual liberty intellectual irresistibly justice Kingdom Kingdom of God Koran land legislation liberal commerce living soul Magna Charta majority of numbers mankind marriage ment military moral order NATIONAL PROGRESS navigation never obedience occupation ocean organized origin peasant mother personal freedom personal liberty plutocratic political principle of growth productive industry PROGRESS AND PERMANENCE protection Scotland Scottish secure seed of progress selfishness single social sovereign power Supreme THOMAS F thought tial tion to-day true seed unequal privilege UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN wealth Whosoever commands
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Strona 27 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the Government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law and are bound to obey it.
Strona 21 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Strona 34 - ... whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
Strona 21 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Strona 18 - Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll Round us, each with different powers, And other forms of life than ours, What know we greater than the soul?
Strona 22 - War in each breast, and freedom on each brow : How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring...
Strona 30 - ... fruits of their industry ; and" to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death. Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Strona 30 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.
Strona 25 - What wonder, if in noble heat Those men thine arms withstood, Retaught the lesson thou hadst taught, And in thy spirit with thee fought — Who sprang from English blood...
Strona 25 - Wherefore we will and firmly enjoin, that the Church of England be free, and that all men in our kingdom have and hold all the aforesaid liberties, rights, and concessions...