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Page viii
... human crime for resistance and of human misery for help , though it seems to me as the voice of a river of blood which can but sweep me down in the midst of its black clots , helpless . " The old Economy had treated growing trade and ...
... human crime for resistance and of human misery for help , though it seems to me as the voice of a river of blood which can but sweep me down in the midst of its black clots , helpless . " The old Economy had treated growing trade and ...
Page 80
... human government is nothing else than the executive expression of this Divine authority . The moment government ceases to be the practical enforcement of Divine law , it is tyranny ; and the meaning which I attach to the words ...
... human government is nothing else than the executive expression of this Divine authority . The moment government ceases to be the practical enforcement of Divine law , it is tyranny ; and the meaning which I attach to the words ...
Page 81
... human law abridge that liberty , and take upon itself to compel what the great Lawgiver does not compel ? R. It is confessed , in the enactment of any law whatso- ever , that human lawgivers have a right to do this . For , if you have ...
... human law abridge that liberty , and take upon itself to compel what the great Lawgiver does not compel ? R. It is confessed , in the enactment of any law whatso- ever , that human lawgivers have a right to do this . For , if you have ...
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