...cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state — to relinquish its protection, and to refuse...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...agreed to than this, that all members of a community have like claims to political power. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then each is free to exercise the same authority in legislation as his fellows; and no individual...

...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,...

...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...

...indirect)} He then reasons out as a first principle controlling the pursuit of happiness that " every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Applications of this first principle constituted the rest of the original volume. Many of these...

...normal".2 Now in Social Statics the law in question, the "First Principle," was thus stated — " Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man."9 Mr. Spencer did not regard this as a complete statement of the whole duty of imperfect man....