American State Papers; The Federalist; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism
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“The truths which are ultimately accepted as the first principles of a science, are really the last results of metaphysical analysis, practised on the elementary notions with which the science is conversant; and their relation to the science is not that of foundations to an edifice, but of roots to a tree, which may perform their office equally well though they be never dug down to and exposed to light.” (Page 445)
“All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility” (Page 275)
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure [10] these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as [15] to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” (Page 1)
“All action is for the sake of some end, and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and colour from the end to which they are subservient.” (Page 445)
“If the view adopted by the utilitarian philosophy of the nature of the moral sense be correct, this difficulty will always present itself, until the influences which form moral character have taken the same hold of the principle which they have taken of some of the consequences—until, by the improvement of education, the feeling of unity with our fellow-creatures shall be (what it cannot be denied that Christ intended it to be) as deeply rooted in our character, and to our own consciousness as completely a part of our nature, as the horror of crime is in an ordinarily well brought up young person.” (Page 457)
- Title: American State Papers; The Federalist; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism
- Authors: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, John Stuart Mill
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 40
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Constitutional history › United States--Sources; Constitutions › United States
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW40
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:35Z