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... liberty on any standard . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed ...
... liberty on any standard . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites . . . . Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed ...
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... Liberty was the essential condition of the good life : ' Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . All constraint , Except what wisdom lays on evil men , Is evil . It ...
... Liberty was the essential condition of the good life : ' Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . All constraint , Except what wisdom lays on evil men , Is evil . It ...
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... liberty to the human spirit . Much of his thought was influenced by Plato , from whom he borrowed the metaphor of ... liberty , and had given civilisation to the west , but the meaning had been lost as men sank beneath the twin tyrannies ...
... liberty to the human spirit . Much of his thought was influenced by Plato , from whom he borrowed the metaphor of ... liberty , and had given civilisation to the west , but the meaning had been lost as men sank beneath the twin tyrannies ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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