...great induction, growing out of his minor inductions, Spencer sums up in his Formula of Justice : " Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." And this, we take to be the fundamental doctrine of his political system, the "Conservation of Justice,...

...achievable under a reign of justice only ; but there must be joined with it a reign of beneficence. Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. In proportion as we love truth more and victory less, we shall become anxious to know what it is which...

...Mr. Spencer deduces " the injustice of private property." If each man " has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other, then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all...

...Mr. Spencer deduces " the (injustice of private property." If each man " has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other, then each of them is free to use the earth for the satisfaction of his wants, provided he allows all...

...a place at once for equality and for liberty, which is essentially inequality. According to him the formula of Justice is : " Every man is free to do...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Every man should properly receive, through free action, the rewards and punishments of his own nature,...

...altogether negative and not positive. The principle of justice, he thinks, may be enunciated thus : " Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." Mr, Spencer may call this positive if he likes, but so far as it is true, what is it but Hillel's maxim...

...general law of justice — the chief application of which is to human beings — thus : every individual is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other. That this is the law of justice may be deduced not only from the nature of man (biologically), but...

...citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man," he says, " has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state, — to relinquish its protection and to refuse paying...

...his "Principles of Ethics," he has forcibly elaborated the doctrine: "Every man has freedom to do as he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." In absence of the social relation of justice, neither the school nor any other institution, nor society...

...important, and of far-reaching consequences in Mr. Spencer's individualistic theory of politics. It is, "-Every man is free to do that which he wills,...infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.* Calling the several particular freedoms of each man his rights, we find them enumerated under such...