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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECONDARY DERIVATION OF A FIRST PRINCIPLE. This first and all-essential law, declaratory of the liberty of each limited only by the like liberties of all, is that fundamental truth of which the moral sense gives an intuition, and which the intellect has to develop into a scientific morality. Quite independently of any such analytical examination as that just concluded, men perpetually exhibit a tendency to assert the equality of human rights. In all ages, but more especially in later ones, has this tendency been visible. In our own history we may detect it as early as the time of Edward I., in whose writs of summons it was said to be a most equitable rule, that what concerns all should be approved of by all. How our institutions have been influenced by it may be seen in the judicial principle that all men are equal before the law. The doctrine that all men are naturally equal (of course not in their faculties, but only in their claims to make the best use of their faculties), has not only been asserted by philanthropists like Granville Sharpe, but, as Sir Robert Filmer, a once-renowned champion of absolute monarchy, tells us, Ileyward, Blackwood, Barclay, and others that have bravely vindicated the rights of kings, . . . with one consent admitted the natural liberty and equality of mankind. In his essay on Civil Government, Locke, too, expresses the opinion that there is nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to the same advantages ofnature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection. Again, we find the declaration of American independence affirming that all men have equal rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And those who...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217660297 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217660290 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.68 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 302 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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