Shelley's Prose: Or, The Trumpet of a Prophecy |
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... social sense was everywhere evident whenever he contem- plated the political condition of man . He insisted that the laws of a nation should be mild and humane , aiming not at punishment for its own sake but at the education of the ...
... social sense was everywhere evident whenever he contem- plated the political condition of man . He insisted that the laws of a nation should be mild and humane , aiming not at punishment for its own sake but at the education of the ...
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... social ties , with the contempt of human life . Govern- ments which derive their institutions from the existence of ... social , economic , and political reforms made necessary by the rapid changes in the social structure of the state ...
... social ties , with the contempt of human life . Govern- ments which derive their institutions from the existence of ... social , economic , and political reforms made necessary by the rapid changes in the social structure of the state ...
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... social order according to its supposed un- avoidable constitution , those from whose labor all those external accommodations which distinguish a civilized being from a savage arise , worked , before the institution of this double ...
... social order according to its supposed un- avoidable constitution , those from whose labor all those external accommodations which distinguish a civilized being from a savage arise , worked , before the institution of this double ...
Contents
THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM | 37 |
A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS | 70 |
NATURAL DIET | 81 |
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