This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...result, as long as we divide man with a hatchet into a selfasserting natural organism and a self-renouncing social being. The State will remain an unexplained negation of the natural man, the realm of an unexplained " do not," in which the individual loses himself, and outside which alone he can assert ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...result, as long as we divide man with a hatchet into a selfasserting natural organism and a self-renouncing social being. The State will remain an unexplained negation of the natural man, the realm of an unexplained " do not," in which the individual loses himself, and outside which alone he can assert himself. It is only when we start from man as a whole; only when we conceive him as being, in his entirety, a rational being whose reason directs him to a good co on to himself and other rational beings, t at we can escape dualism, and find in the State a positive sphere of self-realisation in the attainment by common effort of a common good. Huxley thus leaves the raison d'etre of the State unexplained; and its function--the good of mankind--remains a mere assumption. Because the nature of the State is not made clear, its powers are left unlimited and indefinite. Solvitur ambulando, Huxley retorts; we can follow the empiric clue, and hold that government may do anything which at any given time will promote " the good of mankind." Natural rights avail nothing against government; they constitute no limitation of its powers; let government do what it can to ensure the rule of peace in the cultivated garden of the social world which has been reclaimed from the wilderness of nature. Now the things that belong to peace are civil and moral rights; and to these rights duties are attached (whereas no duties are attached to natural rights); and the violation of these duties must be punished. So we enter the realm of " civil" freedom, where civil and moral rights are guaranteed. To give such a guarantee is the function of government. But the guarantee is only given in the interests of social peace, and it...
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