The Elements of Morality: Including Polity, Band 1

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Harper & Bros., 1845

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Theories 10 The Reason Speculative
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THE SPRINGS OF HUMAN ACTION
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The Understanding
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The Intellect
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Action
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Intention
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Will
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Rules of Action
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Means and Ends
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Rules with Reasons
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Chains of Rules
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The Reason Practical
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The Speculative and Practical Reason
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Development of Mind
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Instincts
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Springs of Action Motives
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Natural Wants
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Artificial Wants 2 The Affections
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Tend to Persons
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Love
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Kinds of Love
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Anger
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Gratitude Resentment Malice
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Man in Society
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Intercourse of
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Tend to Abstractions
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Memory and Imagination
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Good Hope and Fear
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Separation of Mental Desires Instincts
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The Desire of Safety
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Instinct of Selfpreservation
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Desire of Security
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Desire of Liberty
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Men at Enmity
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The Desire of Having
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Things and Persons
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Property is necessary
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The Desire of Family Society
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The Desire of Civil Society
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Mental Desires include Affections
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The Need of a Mutual Understanding
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Promises are necessary
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The Desire of Superiority
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Desire of Equal Rules
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The Desire of Knowledge
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Knowledge and Reason
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Approbation and Disapprobation
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RIGHTS IN GENERAL
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THE RIGHTS OF THE PERSON
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What is the State? 466 The Conception among the Greeks 467 Among the Romans
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Excusable Homicide 116 Dangerous Games 117 Selfdefense 118 Manslaughter 119 Murder 120 Justifiable Homicide 121 Nocturnal Thief 122 Prov...
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Right relatively used 71 Refers to a superior
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Right absolutely used
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The Supreme Good
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Ought Duty
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Why Ought
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Man a Moral Being
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Rights must exist
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Rights separately proved
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Five Primary kinds of Rights
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Wrong Injury
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Rights are Realities
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Punishment
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Rights and right
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Obligation
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Obligation and Duty
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Obliged and Ought
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Obligation and Moral Claim
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Perfect and Imperfect Obligation
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THE RIGHTS OF CONTRACT Art 157
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Nude Pacts 160 Consideration
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Duress
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Contracts of Minors
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Will English 193 Entail 194 Legacies 195 Dowry Jointure 196 Tutor Curator 197 Guardian
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Lawful Marriage 199 Roman Forms of Marriage 200 English Forms of Marriage
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Religious Ceremony of Marriage 202 Divorce in Roman Law 203 Divorce in English Law 204 Concubinage
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THE RIGHTS OF GOVERNMENT OR STATE RIGHTS
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Patriarchal Government 208 National Government 209 The Supreme Authority
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Money
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Property in Land
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Real and Personal Property
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Owner and Tenant
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Ryots Serfs Métayers Farmers
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Feudal System
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Its present influence
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Quiritarian Ownership
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Title Conveyance Remedies
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Trespass
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Dominium Eminens
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Public Property
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Res Nullius
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Incorporeal Property
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Feudal Services
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Animalia feræ naturæ
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Treasure Trove
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Intellectual Virtues
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Contracts void by Fraud
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Formulæ of Contracts
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Stricti Juris Interpretation
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Breach of Contract
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Reverence for Superiors is a Duty
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THE RIGHTS OF MARRIAGE Art 176 Institution of Marriage to be upheld 177 National Sentiment respecting Marriage
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The Family
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Jewish Marriage
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Greek Marriage
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Roman Marriage
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English Marriage
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Husband and Wife
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Adultery
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Rights over Children
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Roman Law English
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Rape and Seduction Roman Law PAGE
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We are approved or condemned for our Affec tions
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DUTIES RESPECTING PROPERTY AND OTHER
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DUTIES CONNECTED WITH PURITY
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Constitution The Executive Function
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The Judicial Function
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Rebellion Treason
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International
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Government de Jure and de Facto
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Legislative Body
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Fact of Law and Idea of Justice to be brought together
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Law and Justice cannot exist separately
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Law is a means of Moral Education
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Jural Discipline of the Romans
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Influence of Justice on
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Law leads to Morality
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Other Classes of Rights
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Defamation in Roman and English
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OF TRANSGRESSION
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Conscience not an Ultimate Authority 369 May be erroneous
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CASES OF CONSCIENCE RESPECTING TRUTH
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Interpretation of Promises 378 Erroneous Promises
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Promises released by the Promisee 380 Unlawful Promises
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but the Relative Duty is violated
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Promises which become unlawful 383 Which Promisee does not think unlawful 384 Electors Promise 385 Promise to a Representative 386 Promise t...
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Should the Promise be given? 392 Analogy of the Law 393 Lies
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Falsehoods under Convention 395 To be carefully limited 396 Lie to conceal a Secret 397 Lie to preserve a Mans Life 398 Lies of Necessity
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Heroic Lies 400 Advocates Assertions
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The unlawful Promise of Marriage 406 Implied Promise of Marriage
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CHAP XVI
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Trusts
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First to ones Self 409 Necessity to be rigorously understood 410 Constraint is not Necessity 411 Fear of certain Death is Necessity 412 Necessity does...
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Strong Moral Principles decide such Conflicts 423 Heroic Acts 424
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Resistance to Government
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OF THINGS ALLOWABLE Art 425 The notion of Allowable belongs to Cases of Necessity
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Is not lightly to be extended 427 Some things are Indifferent 428 But many of these only at first sight 429 The selection is to be directed by Moral C...
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Hence Acts are a Discipline 432 Mortification Askesis
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Not ascetic but spontaneous Virtue is required 434 Discipline of the Intellect PAGE
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Advocates Profession to be Moral 402 Sellers Concealments 403 The Alexandrian Merchant
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May be unavoidable
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but care is needed 441 Their consequences to be redressed 442 If they arise from Negligence are defects 443 But they may palliate actions 444 Ignor...
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We can cultivate our Affections by thoughts of Duty
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By unfolding conceptions of Virtues
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By unfolding the notion of doing Good
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By acts of Duty
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We have never done all that is possible
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Our Moral Culture is a Duty
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Our Moral Progress never terminates
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It is our Duty to cultivate Gratitude
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The greatest interruptions are the greatest transgressions
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The Duty of Moral Culture adds to other Duties
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Moral Perfection is our greatest Good
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In later times
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The State is not a mere Concourse of men 470 The State is one and perpetual 471 The State is Sovereign 472 The People is not the Source of Rights ...
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JUSTICE
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90
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Rights cannot be founded on Injustice
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Rights not always vitiated by previous injustice 483 No single Rule is absolute 484 Justice assigns Rights according to existing Conditions 485 Justice ...
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War not necessarily unjust 492 What is just respecting past violence? 493 To aim constantly at remedying it 494 Law tends slowly to Justice 495 Law...
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EQUITY
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Equity is Equality 497 Separation of Justice and Equity PAGE 309
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HUMANITY
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Of ourselves and others
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Such progress is possible
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Can never terminate
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Transgression
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Temptation
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Resistance
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Degrees of Guilt
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Measure of Guilt
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Interruption of Moral Progress
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Repentance
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Amendment
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Not necessarily sufficient
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Amendment must be immediate
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OF CONSCIENCE 234
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Conscience the
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Conscience the Witness
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Conscience the Punisher
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To act against Conscience is wrong
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Is to act according to Conscience always right?
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Conscience to be enlightened and instructed
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Aid of Religion needed
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MORAL EDUCATION
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Seite 311 - Africanus, res publica res populi, populus autem non omnis hominum coetus quoquo modo congregatus, sed coetus multitudinis iuris consensu et utilitatis communione sociatus.
Seite 66 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Seite 103 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Seite 345 - A slave is one who is in the power of a master to whom he belongs. The master may sell him, dispose of his person, his industry and his labor. He can do nothing, possess nothing, nor acquire anything but what must belong to his master.
Seite 339 - Jus naturale est, quod natura omnia animalia docuit: nam jus istud non humani generis proprium, sed omnium animalium, quse in terra, quae in mari nascuntur, avium quoque commune est.
Seite 69 - If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Seite 257 - Some Moralists have ranked with the cases in which Convention supersedes the general rule of truth, an Advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client's cause*.
Seite 67 - And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live : Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past ; as when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live...
Seite 104 - In the civil law the husband and the wife are considered as two distinct persons, and may have separate estates, contracts, debts, and injuries: and therefore in our ecclesiastical courts, a woman may sue and be sued without her husband.
Seite 330 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...

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