...Any doubt that may be felt as to the fact that this is a logical deduction from our first principle, that every man has freedom to do all that he wills...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, may be readily cleared up by comparing the respective degrees of freedom assumed in such a case...

...duty may be evolved. Such a first principle he finds in the following definition of justice : — " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." This, he says, is the sole law of the social relationship : whatever action or institution respects...

...the " First Principle" itself, Mr. Spencer, after summing up the evidence, finally states it to be, that " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man:" adding, that " though further qualifications of the liberty of action, thus asserted, may be...

...by prejudice, passion, or temptation. The formulary of this new revelation is conveniently brief. " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." In this form is the new law expressed by the English Spencer.* It is announced in a still broader...

...By the steps traced, he arrives at the formula of this law, which he puts in the following words : that, " Every ." man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided that he "infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." The application of this principle to the...

...Any doubt that may be felt as to the fact that this is a logical deduction from our first principle, that every man has freedom to do all that he wills...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, may be readily cleared up by comparing the respective degrees of freedom assumed in such a case...

...function of guiding us in this matter, — we are alike taught as the law of social relationships, that every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other mem. Though further qualifications of the liberty of action thus asserted may be necessary, yet we...

...first principle, or, as it is called in the title of the book, first condition of human happiness, is that — Every man has freedom to do all that he wills,...provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man; and his whole book is professedly devoted to prove and develope this principle. He thinks he has...

...freedom; that is, the liberty of each, limited only by the like liberty of all; and say with Spencer: " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man," then, it is no wrong for him to injure himself nor any animal belonging to himself; whereas,...

...guiding us in this matter, we are alike taught as the law of right social relationships, that — Enery man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. Though further qualifications of the liberty of action thus asserted may be necessary, yet we...