 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 318 pages
...RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, AND 158 procal relations. To show their mode of generation, is to show their nature. A period may be easily imagined when men existed without...only for a fleeting moment, which perish the instant that they are born, but which still leave a numerous posterity. Among these actions, some will produce... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 314 pages
...OBLIGATIONS, AND SERVICES. 150 procal relations. To show their mode of generation, is to show I hrir nature. A period may be easily imagined when men existed without...then possess ? Persons, things, actions ; persons and thinys, the only real beings ; actions, which exist only for a fleeting moment, which perish the instant... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 642 pages
...OBLIGATIONS, AND SEKVICES. 150 procal relations. To show their mode of generation, is to show their nature. A period may be easily imagined when men existed without...actions ; persons and things, the only real beings ; action*, which exist only for a fleeting moment, which perish the instant that they are born, but.... | |
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To show their mode of generation, is to show their nature. A period may be easily imagined when men existed without laws, without obligations, without crimes, without rights. What would they then possess ? Persons, things, actions ; persons and things,... 