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Burkiana:
consolation in death . Whatever each man can separately do , without trespassing upon others , he has a ri ght to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair' portion of all which society , with all its combinations of skill and force , can do in his favour . In this partnership all men have equal rights , but not to equal things . He that has but five shillings in the partnership has as good a ri ght to it as he that has five hundred has to his
larger proportion ; but he has not a ri ght to an equal dividend in the product of the joint estate ; and as to the share of power , authority , and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state , that I must deny to be amon < rst ' the direct original ri ghts of man in civil-society ; for 1 have in my contemplation the civil social man , and no other . It is a thing to be settled bconvention
y . If civil society be the offspring-of convention , that convention must ' be its law . That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed underit . Every sort of legislative , judicial , or executory power , are its creatures . They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim , under the conventions of civil society , rights which do not so much as suppose its existence ?
Government is not made in virtue of natural ri ghts , which may and do exist totally independent of it ; and exist in much greater clearness , and in a much greater degree of abstraft perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect . By having a ri ght to every thing , they want every thing . Government ' is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants . Men have a right that these wants should be
provided for by this wisdom . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want , out of civil society , of a sufficient restraint upon their passions . Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected , but that , even in the mass and body as well as in the individuals , the inclinations of men should frequentl y be thwarted , their will controuled , and their passions brought into
subjection . This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not , in the-exercise of its function , subject to that will and those passions which it is its office to bridle and to subdue . »» tins sense , the restraints on men , as well as their liberties , are to oe reckoned among their rights . But as the liberties and tlie restrictions vary with times and circumstances , and admit of infinite modi"cations , they cannot be settled upon any abstraft ride ; and nothing « so toohsh as to discuss them upon that principle .
GOVERNMENT OF CONTROUL , _ TIIE . controul mUSt be str 0 I 1 £ ' in tlle direct ratio of passion , as welj as the inverse of knowled ge and reason . I do not rejoice ( said Mr . wh y ^ hear that mei 1 may do what tile y P lease > - "" less I know ^ nat it p leases them to do . Society cannot exist unless a contrbulino- ' powtr upon will and appetite be placed somewhere ; and the less ol 'is placed within , the more must there be without . It is ordained the eternal constitution of things , that men of intemperate mirids « - " » iot be free . Their passions forge their fetters .
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Burkiana:
consolation in death . Whatever each man can separately do , without trespassing upon others , he has a ri ght to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair' portion of all which society , with all its combinations of skill and force , can do in his favour . In this partnership all men have equal rights , but not to equal things . He that has but five shillings in the partnership has as good a ri ght to it as he that has five hundred has to his
larger proportion ; but he has not a ri ght to an equal dividend in the product of the joint estate ; and as to the share of power , authority , and direction which each individual ought to have in the management of the state , that I must deny to be amon < rst ' the direct original ri ghts of man in civil-society ; for 1 have in my contemplation the civil social man , and no other . It is a thing to be settled bconvention
y . If civil society be the offspring-of convention , that convention must ' be its law . That convention must limit and modify all the descriptions of constitution which are formed underit . Every sort of legislative , judicial , or executory power , are its creatures . They can have no being in any other state of things ; and how can any man claim , under the conventions of civil society , rights which do not so much as suppose its existence ?
Government is not made in virtue of natural ri ghts , which may and do exist totally independent of it ; and exist in much greater clearness , and in a much greater degree of abstraft perfection : but their abstract perfection is their practical defect . By having a ri ght to every thing , they want every thing . Government ' is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants . Men have a right that these wants should be
provided for by this wisdom . Among these wants is to be reckoned the want , out of civil society , of a sufficient restraint upon their passions . Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected , but that , even in the mass and body as well as in the individuals , the inclinations of men should frequentl y be thwarted , their will controuled , and their passions brought into
subjection . This can only be done by a power out of themselves ; and not , in the-exercise of its function , subject to that will and those passions which it is its office to bridle and to subdue . »» tins sense , the restraints on men , as well as their liberties , are to oe reckoned among their rights . But as the liberties and tlie restrictions vary with times and circumstances , and admit of infinite modi"cations , they cannot be settled upon any abstraft ride ; and nothing « so toohsh as to discuss them upon that principle .
GOVERNMENT OF CONTROUL , _ TIIE . controul mUSt be str 0 I 1 £ ' in tlle direct ratio of passion , as welj as the inverse of knowled ge and reason . I do not rejoice ( said Mr . wh y ^ hear that mei 1 may do what tile y P lease > - "" less I know ^ nat it p leases them to do . Society cannot exist unless a contrbulino- ' powtr upon will and appetite be placed somewhere ; and the less ol 'is placed within , the more must there be without . It is ordained the eternal constitution of things , that men of intemperate mirids « - " » iot be free . Their passions forge their fetters .