 | John Redman Coxe, Thomas Cooper - Industrial arts - 1813 - 532 pages
...lias made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea ; which an individual...too is that no one possesses the less because every oilier possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 458 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...into the possession of every one and the receiver can not dispossess himself of it. Inventions can not in nature be a subject of property. Society may... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1960 - 900 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...less, because every other possesses the whole of it * * *. Inventions cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right... | |
 | Peter Groves - Law - 1997 - 787 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
 | Jean-Yves Roger, B. Stanford-Smith, Paul T. Kidd - Business & Economics - 1998 - 952 pages
...than all others of c\c!usive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, uhich an individual may exclusively possess as long as he...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of even. one. and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it Its peculiar character, too. is that no... | |
 | Bruce Haring - MP3 - 2000 - 206 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no... | |
 | Siva Vaidhyanathan - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispose himself of it. Jefferson then elucidated the flaw in the... | |
 | Nancy Kranich - Computers - 2001 - 236 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as lie keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 376 pages
...has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual...the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its perculiar character, too, is that no one possess the less, because every other possess the whole of... | |
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If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged,... 
