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

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

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Стр. 236 - 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. It may...
Стр. 277 - 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.
Стр. 235 - 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.
Стр. 236 - What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or, perhaps, the faculty of discourse? 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.
Стр. 33 - The value of the punishment must not be less in any case than what is sufficient to outweigh that of the profit of the offence.
Стр. 2 - Qtjjers . tjjat of tjje 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.
Стр. 261 - 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...
Стр. 21 - The punishment ought in no case to be more than what is necessary to bring it into conformity with the rules here given.
Стр. 236 - It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate.
Стр. 235 - 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.

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