An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Nide 2

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W. Pickering, 1823
Bentham's treatise on the foundations of law and government.
 

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56
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228

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Sivu 275 - That there are certain natural rights of which men, when they form a social compact cannot deprive or divest their posterity, among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Sivu 233 - The day has been, I grieve to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing, as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are stilt The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.
Sivu 234 - What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? But a...
Sivu 234 - But a full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
Sivu 2 - This action is either that of the offender, or of ins ment. otners . tjjat of the offender it controuls by its influence, either on his will, in which case it is said to operate in the way of reformation ; or on his physical power, in which case it is said to operate by disablement : that of others it can influence no otherwise than by its influence over their wills ; in which case it is said to operate in the way of example.
Sivu 259 - The word international, it must be acknowledged, is a new one ; though, it is hoped, sufficiently analogous and intelligible. It is calculated to express, in a more significant way, the branch of law which goes commonly under the name of the law of nations...
Sivu 17 - It is a well-known adage, though it is to be hoped not a true one, that every man has his price. It is commonly meant of a man's virtue. This saying, though in a very different sense, was strictly verified by some of the Anglo-Saxon laws : by which a fixed price was set, not upon a man's virtue indeed, but upon his life : that of the sovereign himself among the rest. For 200 shillings you might have killed a peasant: for six times as much, a nobleman : for six-and-thirty times as much you might have...
Sivu 233 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor.
Sivu 1 - The general object which all laws have, or ought to have, in common, is to augment the total happiness of the community; and therefore, in the first place, to exclude, as far as may be, every thing that tends to subtract from that happiness: in other words, to exclude mischief.
Sivu 1 - But all punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil. Upon the principle of utility, if it ought at all to be admitted, it ought only to be admitted in as far as it promises to exclude some greater evil.

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