Natural Theology: An Inquiry Into the Fundamental Principles of Religious, Moral, and Political ScienceW. Blackwood and sons, 1867 - 352 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 172 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
الصفحة 293 - Government," resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say, "that so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniency, it is the will of God that the established government be obeyed, and no longer. . . . This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the...