Percy Bysshe Shelleys Abhängigkeit von William Godwins political justice

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Mayer & Müller, 1906 - 89 strani
 

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Stran 31 - Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil...
Stran 11 - So long as two human beings are forbidden by positive institution to follow the dictates of their own mind, prejudice is alive and vigorous.
Stran 31 - The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act: a general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Stran 26 - ... all the oppressions which are done under the sun;- its tendency to awaken public hope and to enlighten and improve mankind; the rapid effects of the application of that tendency; the awakening of an immense, nation from their slavery and degradation to a true sense of moral dignity and freedom...
Stran 18 - The sceptre of a vast dominion there ; Whilst every shape and mode of matter lends Its force to the omnipotence of mind, Which from its dark mine drags the gem of truth To decorate its paradise of peace.
Stran 15 - Labour, industry, economy, skill, genius, or any similar powers honourably and innocently exerted are the foundations of one description of property, and all true political institutions ought to defend every man in the exercise of his discretion with respect to property so acquired.
Stran 13 - Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion ; though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.
Stran 14 - In the life of every human being there is a chain of causes, generated in that eternity which preceded his birth, and going on in regular procession through the whole period of his existence, in consequence of which it was impossible for him to act in any instance otherwise than he has acted.
Stran 14 - Every human being is irresistibly impelled to act precisely as he does act : in the eternity which preceded his birth a chain of causes was generated, which, operating under the name of motives, make it impossible that any thought of his mind, or any act ion of his life, should be otherwise than it is.

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