Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... fulfil the appointed law . Imperfection is merely another word for disobedience . So that congruity between a true theory of duty , and an untrue state of humanity , is an impossibility , a contradiction in the nature of things ...
... fulfil the appointed law . Imperfection is merely another word for disobedience . So that congruity between a true theory of duty , and an untrue state of humanity , is an impossibility , a contradiction in the nature of things ...
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... fulfil his own nature , not only without diminishing other men's spheres of activity , but without giving unhappiness to other men in any direct or indirect way . This condition , as we shall by - and - by see , needs to be kept quite ...
... fulfil his own nature , not only without diminishing other men's spheres of activity , but without giving unhappiness to other men in any direct or indirect way . This condition , as we shall by - and - by see , needs to be kept quite ...
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... fulfil these requirements as fast as we can . The social state is a necessity . The conditions of greatest happiness under that state are fixed . Our characters are the only things not fixed . They , then , must be moulded into fitness ...
... fulfil these requirements as fast as we can . The social state is a necessity . The conditions of greatest happiness under that state are fixed . Our characters are the only things not fixed . They , then , must be moulded into fitness ...
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... fulfil his duty or God's will . But if he cannot fulfil God's will without it , then God commands him to take it . He has Divine authority , therefore , for claiming this freedom of action . God intended him to have it ; that is , he ...
... fulfil his duty or God's will . But if he cannot fulfil God's will without it , then God commands him to take it . He has Divine authority , therefore , for claiming this freedom of action . God intended him to have it ; that is , he ...
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... fulfil its end , such exercise of faculties must be confined within certain limits ; let us now pursue the investigation a step further , and see whether there does not exist in man himself an impulse to claim that exercise , and an ...
... fulfil its end , such exercise of faculties must be confined within certain limits ; let us now pursue the investigation a step further , and see whether there does not exist in man himself an impulse to claim that exercise , and an ...
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