 | Congregationalism - 1866 - 648 pages
...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." These are his postulates. He dares not discuss them abstractly, but only as they are... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1861 - 580 pages
...collectively, in interfering with ' the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. ' That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community, against his will, is ' to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, ' is not a sufficient warrant — the conduct... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...be according to the rules of courtesy. He says, — 1st.* " The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others." 2nd.f " Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm- to others. His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self -protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 616 pages
...collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, whether physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
 | 1859 - 446 pages
...and all, agree to the principle laid down by Stuart Mill in his essay on " Liberty," when he says, that " the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others." "We ask no more than this. And if we can show that unrestricted competition is productive... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - History - 1872 - 324 pages
...Archbishop of York, Sermon preached Feb. 2ist, 1777, p. 19. (b.) " The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully...civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - Citizenship - 1873 - 396 pages
...Archbishop of York, sermon preached Feb. 21st, 1777, p. 19. (b) "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully... | |
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That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection ; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over... 
