The Social science review [afterw.] New York social science review. A. Delmar, S. Stern edsAlexander Del Mar 1865 |
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... legislation , are entirely due to human laws and Govern- ments . How long would slavery have existed in this world , had not human laws legalized and perpetuated that most ini- * * * * Prudence will never advise the use of unlawful ...
... legislation , are entirely due to human laws and Govern- ments . How long would slavery have existed in this world , had not human laws legalized and perpetuated that most ini- * * * * Prudence will never advise the use of unlawful ...
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... legislation and Government favorit- ism , obtain special privileges at the expense of the other mem- bers of the community . The State is constantly appealed to , because it is supposed to be a disinterested party . But is this so ? Are ...
... legislation and Government favorit- ism , obtain special privileges at the expense of the other mem- bers of the community . The State is constantly appealed to , because it is supposed to be a disinterested party . But is this so ? Are ...
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... constantly see Governments and human laws , * See Herbert Spencer's Essay on Over - Legislation , from ignorance as well as from dishonesty , attempt to 2 GOVERNMENT . 17 A few can never secure the same beneficial results, ...
... constantly see Governments and human laws , * See Herbert Spencer's Essay on Over - Legislation , from ignorance as well as from dishonesty , attempt to 2 GOVERNMENT . 17 A few can never secure the same beneficial results, ...
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... Legislative As- sembly . The States - General were vested with no legislative authority , possessing only the right of consultation , and of petitioning the sovereign . No subsidy could be voted by the States - General without the ...
... Legislative As- sembly . The States - General were vested with no legislative authority , possessing only the right of consultation , and of petitioning the sovereign . No subsidy could be voted by the States - General without the ...
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... legislation as would effect the desired result . The question now is : Has he done this properly ? To per- form this task , required that he should not only keep in view the system which the " combined wisdom " of the nation had already ...
... legislation as would effect the desired result . The question now is : Has he done this properly ? To per- form this task , required that he should not only keep in view the system which the " combined wisdom " of the nation had already ...
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Page 286 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Page 307 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 300 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 307 - Executive — can secure its adoption? Will not the good people respond to a united and earnest appeal from us? Can we, can they, by any other means so certainly or so speedily assure these vital objects? We can succeed only by concert. It is not "Can any of us imagine better?
Page 258 - It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements, or private cards, or handbills, inviting the attention of individuals affected with particular diseases...
Page 96 - At twelve o'clock, meridian, of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place as aforesaid, the members of the two houses shall convene in Joint Assembly, and the Journal of each house shall then be read ; and if the same person shall have received a majority of all the votes in each house, such person shall be declared duly elected Senator...
Page 310 - ... little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away and I went off, and in the excitement of the hour forgot all about it — nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable...
Page 310 - I lay was a bureau with a swinging glass upon it ; and looking in that glass, I saw myself reflected nearly at full length ; but my face, I noticed, had two separate and distinct images, the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. I was a little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before ; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little...
Page 26 - There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 53 - By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.
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| Title | The Social science review [afterw.] New York social science review. A. Delmar, S. Stern eds |
| Editor | Alexander Del Mar |
| Published | 1865 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2006 |
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