Industrial LibertyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 414 pages |
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... questions , by the variety and con- flicting character of many of the propositions which are suggested for reform , and still more strongly by the absence of any one central and clearly defined principle upon which there can be a ...
... questions , by the variety and con- flicting character of many of the propositions which are suggested for reform , and still more strongly by the absence of any one central and clearly defined principle upon which there can be a ...
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... questions of constitutional construction , they defined certain essential qualities of liberty by clearly drawing the line between unbridled excess on the one hand and the undue restraints of hereditary government on the other . 20 ...
... questions of constitutional construction , they defined certain essential qualities of liberty by clearly drawing the line between unbridled excess on the one hand and the undue restraints of hereditary government on the other . 20 ...
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... question drops . But if we adopt either the optimist view or the meliorist view - if we say that life on the whole brings more pleasure than pain , or that it is on the way to become such that it will yield more pleasure than pain ...
... question drops . But if we adopt either the optimist view or the meliorist view - if we say that life on the whole brings more pleasure than pain , or that it is on the way to become such that it will yield more pleasure than pain ...
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... question , involving an attack upon primogeniture , hereditary holding , absenteeism , and all the accompaniments of class interests , has thus its true genesis in steam and electricity . Never- theless , the progress of this industry ...
... question , involving an attack upon primogeniture , hereditary holding , absenteeism , and all the accompaniments of class interests , has thus its true genesis in steam and electricity . Never- theless , the progress of this industry ...
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... questions , is by no means uncommon , and it is a course which is fruit- ful of many confusions . " In the investigations undertaken by committees of Congress in the United States , the causes assigned by various witnesses who testified ...
... questions , is by no means uncommon , and it is a course which is fruit- ful of many confusions . " In the investigations undertaken by committees of Congress in the United States , the causes assigned by various witnesses who testified ...
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Page 162 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 162 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on...
Page 162 - The claim that any such testimony or evidence may tend to criminate the person giving such evidence shall not excuse such witness from testifying; but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding.
Page 22 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Page 99 - Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Page 41 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom...
Page 337 - ... one of the powers belonging to sovereignty in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution; we are irresistibly impelled...
Page 41 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 4 - He was greater as an opponent of tyranny than as a deviser of liberties; the fetters imposed on royal autocracy, cumbrous and entangled as they were, seem to have been an integral part of his policy ; the means he took for admitting the nation to self-government wear very much the form of an occasional or party expedient, which a longer tenure of undivided power might have led him either to develop or to discard.
Page 9 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.