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...n, and all other living, sentient persons, and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Whereas thi... ... orientation, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, origin, ’body makeup’(human or otherwise), birth ... ...n a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. 2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of ... ... procedures. Article 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort an... ...dance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free deve... ...orthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. 4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unio...

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...Biological systems obey the same order- increasing (natural) laws as do physical and social ones. We are part of the Universe in the sense that we ar... ...: "Bestowed Entities". These are entities whose existence is bestowed upon them by social agreement between conscious agents. But this definition i... ...ss. Religion and money are two examples of entities which owe their existence to a social agreement between conscious entities - yet they don't str... ...s pertinent and our definition should be refined accordingly. We must distinguish "Social Entities" (like money or religion) from "Bestowed Entitie... ...ronment (=to the soul) in the shape of language (images, words, associations). The defence mechanisms, known to us from classical psychology proje... ... utmost to convert the cluster back into a potential. This effort is the Repression Defence Mechanism. So, the energy used during repression is als... ...creates a change in the Language Field. Such a change can lead to a conflict with a social norm, for instance, or with a norm, a personal value, or ... ...on. This, admittedly, is a rigid and restraining choice. In other words: this is a defence mechanism. Alternatively, energy is imported by the stam... ...ith this restraint are rejected or distorted. This selectivity also characterizes defence mechanisms. Patterns, Structures, Shapes Patterns are ...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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..., with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert... ...s in circuit; within it are preserved all manner of arms necessary for the defence of the place. The third court is much the largest of any, built at ... ...he field. Howsoever, as I know you will not lessen your care, neither your defences, whatso- ever lies in my power to do you and the public service, r...

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... with one and the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the ?philosophy of human affairs;? but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author?s whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The two parts of t...

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... place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author’s whol... ...lated indi- vidual, but has always thought of him, or we might say, in his social and political context, with a given nature due to race and heredity ... ...d to the questions which centre round the enquiry; by what organisation of social or political forces, by what laws or institutions can we best secure... ...and, in general, friends and countrymen; for man is by nature adapted to a social existence. But of these, of course, some limit must be fixed: for if... ...arms and have such as are most serviceable both with a view to offence and defence: so that their case is par- allel to that of armed men fighting wit... ...moral states which have Anger for their object-matter. VI Next, as regards social intercourse and interchange of words and acts, some men are thought ... ... when in excess and for objects not necessary. (This was the ground of the defence the man made who beat his father, “My father,” he said, “used to be...

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... Warren’s Profession to an audience of cleri- cal members of the Christian Social Union and of women well experienced in Rescue, Temperance, and Girls... ...gh at them if they did. So well have the rescuers learnt that Mrs Warren’s defence of herself and indictment of society is the thing that most needs s... ...hereas plays in which these humors and fascinations are discarded, and the social problems created by sex seriously faced and dealt with, inevitably i... ...d Mrs Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, The Gay Lord Quex, Mrs Dane’s Defence, and Iris would be swept from the stage, and placed under the same ... ...f instincts and temperaments in conflict with each other and with a flinty social problem that never yields an inch to mere sentiment. I go further th... ...om their family relationships and from his “conventionally unconventional” social code. The sarcasm is lost on the critics: they, saturated with the s... ...reputable daughter who cannot endure her. Her indifference to the ultimate social consequences of her means of making money, and her discovery of that... ...tablishments of which she boasts, are all high English social virtues. Her defence of herself is so overwhelming that it provokes the St James Gazette... ... is wholly evil” because “it contains one of the boldest and most specious defences of an immoral life for poor women that has ever been penned.” Happ...

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...elieve that it is a little reprobate on the road to hell. The child has no defence in any case except the kindness and conscience of the adult; and th... ...y provides children with edifying adult society, or that the fam- ily is a social unit. The family is in that, as in so many other respects, a humbug.... ... advised elementary schoolmasters to qualify themselves in the art of self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national estimate of the... ...ions and imposition of snob- bery on children as a necessary part of their social training. The result of our economic folly is that we are a nation o... ...- strained by law at the suggestion of Robert Owen, the founder of English Socialism. Most of this legislation will become an insufferable restraint u... ...ors or modern correspondence classes with gramophones. We go to them to be socialized; to ac- quire the hall mark of communal training; to become citi... ...s; to learn manners and become un- challengeable ladies and gentlemen. The social pressure which effects these changes should be that of persons who h... ... and fork, to swim, to ride a bicycle, to acquire sufficient power of self-defence to make an attack on it an arduous and uncertain enterprise, perhap... ...: you have depraved the passions by starving them, and broken down all the defences which so effectively protect children brought up in freedom. You h...

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...s Treaty, a single and stable currency, DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their peoples, within the context of the accomplishment... ...foreign and se- curity policy including the eventual framing of a com- mon defence policy, which might in time lead to a com- mon defence, thereby rei... ...Union shall set itself the following objectives: - to promote economic and social progress which is bal- anced and sustainable, in particular through ... ...area without internal frontiers, through the strengthening of economic and social cohesion and through the establishment of economic and monetary unio... ...n foreign and security policy in- cluding the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence;- to strengthe... ... of convergence of economic performance, a high level of employment and of social protection, the raising of the standard of living and quality of lif... ...he raising of the standard of living and quality of life, and economic and social cohesion and solidarity among Member States.’ 3) Article 3 shall be ... ...to the security of the Union, in- cluding the eventual framing of a common defence policy, which might in time lead to a common defence. 2. The union ... ..., to elaborate and implement decisions and actions of the Union which have defence implications. The Council shall, in agreement with the institutions...

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...rable portion of their lives. The present wretched education, and wretched social arrangements, are the only real hindrance to its being attain able ... ...er of gross impru dence, of ill regulated desires, or of bad or imperfect social institutions. All the grand sources, in short, of human suf fering ... ...nearest approach to this ideal, utility would enjoin, first, that laws and social arrangements should place the happiness, or (as speaking practically... ...of human assertion, which is not only the principal support of all present social well be ing, but the insufficiency of which does more than any one ... ... strength of the utilitarian morality. This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creat... ...natural, and which either are or resemble instincts; the im pulse of self defence, and the feeling of sympathy. It is natural to resent, and to repel... ...ening to his own, and calls forth his instinct (if instinct it be) of self defence. The same supe riority of intelligence, joined to the power of sym... ...ent evil to others, this being an exercise of the legitimate right of self defence. Mr. Owen, again, affirms that it is unjust to punish at all; for t... ...er people’s benefit. The second relies on the acknowledged justice of self defence, and the admitted injustice of forcing one per son to conform to a...

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...f the pre- ventive sort are spells and antidotes, divine and human, and also defences, and defences are either arms or screens, and screens are veils ... ...ither of these, any more than with the arts of mak- ing (3) vehicles, or (4) defences, whether dresses, or arms, or walls, or (5) with the art of maki... ...in a single texture, and in this enfolding freeman and slave and every other social element, and pre- siding over them all. ‘Y our picture, Stranger ,... ... care of God, who had possessed and tended them, they were left helpless and defenceless, and were torn in pieces by the beasts, who were naturally fi... ...e preventive class are antidotes, divine and human, and also de- fences; and defences are either military weapons or protections; and protections are ... ...er and earth, and others are fastened together by themselves. And these last defences and coverings which are fastened together by themselves are call...

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...t Potts plays an enormous part in ourselves and in the world, and that the social problem is not a problem of story-book heroes of the older pattern, ... ... Schopenhauer, or even knew whether he was a philosopher or a chemist, the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both li... ...ontact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialist and philosophic essayist, whose handling of modern feminism would... ...hould prevent every right- minded man from at once doing on principle. The Socialists were naturally shocked, being for the most part morbidly moral p... ... of society to the conflict of races, his theory made some sensation among Socialists—that is, among the only people who were seri- ously thinking abo... ... hirers. The reason why the independent income-tax payers are not solid in defence of their position is that since we are not medieval rovers through ... ... their eyes that if they fought on the subject at all, they would fight in defence of the starch. “Cease to be slaves, in order that you may become cr...

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...eld from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified,... ... the experi ence of life. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex t... ...osened than any of the rest by the progress the great modern spiritual and social tran sition; nor suppose that the barbarisms to which men cling lon... ...ituting the government of society; if, after trying various other modes of social organisation—the government of women over men, equality between the ... ...of inequality never was the result of deliberation, or forethought, or any social ideas, or any notion whatever of what con duced to the benefit of h... ...bedience; as every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence, is always pre sented to us as an injunction of religion. The Chur... ...ion of Women by John Stuart Mill 92 inequality has no just or legitimate defence; they re quire to be told what express advantage would be obtained... ...nd worship directed towards women; who were distin guished from the other defence—less classes by the high rewards which they had it in their power v...

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...e of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form, and which seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed ... ...d perfect persons. We want men and women who shall reno- vate life and our social state, but we see that most na- tures are insolvent, cannot satisfy ... ... his skin,” is sound philosophy. All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst ... ...k and to be under- stood. Yet a man may come to find that the strongest of defences and of ties,—that he has been understood; and he who has received ... ... given no opinion on the times, on the church, on slavery, on marriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and... ... being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social in- stincts. For though the celestial rapture falling out of heaven ... ... Nature so poor but she gives me this joy several times, and thus we weave social threads of our own, a new web of relations; and, as many thoughts in... ...emselves formidable to the uncultivated man. They are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other... ... the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves. Our quarrel with ...

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... Ruler of the universe, had achieved the most transcendent act of power that social man in his mortal condition can per form—even that of dissolving... ...r our posterity. They form the connecting links between the selfish and the social pas sions. By the fundamental principle of Christianity, the happ... ...or himself alone. No, he was made for his country, by the obligations of the social compact; he was made for his species, by the Christian duties of u... ...t is, perhaps, the only instance in human history of that positive, original social compact, which specula tive philosophers have imagined as the on... ...grity were alike the virtues of all, there would, apparently, be more of the social spirit, in making all property a common stock, and giving to each... ...y other examples might be alleged, in which their necessary measures of self defence have been ex aggerated into cruelty, and their most indispensab...

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...ted. The Radicals who used to advocate, as an indispensable preliminary to social reform, the strangling of the last king with the entrails of the las... ...ed enough to cling desperately to your eighteenpence as denoting a certain social superiority to the sixpenny doctor, you will be miserably poor all y... ...ous, and unscientific in method as it actually is. The note of fury in the defence, the feeling that the anti-vaccinator is doing a cruel, ruinous, in... ...ch has an air of being scientific, their first instinct is to rally to the defence of that method without further consideration, with the result that ... ... and priests may forbid knowledge to those who accept their authority; and social taboo may be made effective by acts of legal perse- cution under cov... ...e, liberty, and happiness (as the American Constitution puts it), from all social conditions. No man is allowed to put his mother into the stove becau... ...y be expected from the practice. Not for a moment do I suggest that such a defence would be valid even if proved. But when the witnesses begin by alle... ...er common instance, com- parisons which are really comparisons between two social classes with different standards of nutrition and education are palm... ...end without payment in advance becomes often a necessary mea- sure of self-defence, whilst the County Court has long ago put an end to the tradition t...

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...scover How Not To Do It. Since Dickens’s day the exposures effected by the Socialists have so shat- tered the self-satisfaction of modern commercial c... ...f this tendency. The case against the censorship was overwhelming; and the defence was more damaging to it than no defence at all could have been. Eve... ...d the manager could not decently be convicted when he could procure in his defence a certificate from the chief officer of the King’s household that t... ...ple explanation of the rally of the managers and their Associations to the defence of the censor- ship, of their reiterated resolutions of confidence ... ...ses who had least to fear from the Censor were the most re- luctant in his defence, whilst those whose practice it is to strain his indulgence to the ... ...ung man marked out for office both by his parentage and his unquestionable social position as one of the gov- erning class. Also, and this was much le... ...ts protection, but also that enormous weight of public opinion enforced by social ostracism which is stronger than all the statutes. A censor pretendi... ...and for the denial to the theatre of the liberties secured, at far greater social risk, to the press and the platform. There is no question here of gi... ...y objected to on the ground that they are not usually discussed in general social conversation or in the presence of children; but it would presumably...

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...trine of Jesus has not in all that time been put into political or general social practice. I am no more a Christian than Pilate was, or you, gentle r... ...zed as plainly as he the necessity for suppressing attacks on the existing social order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowle... ...e very dangerous delusion that the end of the world was at hand. I make no defence of such Christians as Savonarola and John of Ley- den: they were sc... ...e notion that Jesus died, as some are in the habit of declar- ing, for his social and political opinions. There have been many martyrs to those opinio... ..., much as certain well-to-do young gentle- men forty years ago “joined the Socialists.” As far as estab- lished Jewry was concerned, he burnt his boat... ...tures and resounding lies. Now those who, like myself, see the Barabbasque social organization as a failure, and are convinced that the Life Force (or... ...ates their doing it. To them an attack on marriage is not a blow struck in defence of their freedom but at their rights and privileges. One would expe... ...he campaigns of Gustavus Adolphus, and even of Frederick the Great, were a defence of it, is as absurd as the opposite notion that Frederick was Antic...

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...en either tacitly or ex- pressly handed over to it all their power of self-defence, or in 8 A Theologico-Political Treatise – Part Four other words, ... ...ain any right for themselves, they ought to have taken precautions for its defence and preservation; as they have not done so, and indeed could not ha... ...ted by his power, that is, has trans- ferred his liberty and power of self-defence, he is bound to live as that other dictates, and to trust to him en... ...bound to live as that other dictates, and to trust to him entirely for his defence. Wrong takes place when a citizen, or subject, is forced by an- oth... ...these, however, are very clearly indicated in the very ground- work of the social fabric. Anyone who gives the subject the slightest attention, will s... ...promise to forego the right which he has over all things.” In the state of social life, where general right determines what is good or evil, stratagem... ...ndnote 27]. “Every member of it may, if he will, be free.” Whatever be the social state a man finds; himself in, he may be free. For certainly a man i...

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...n Europe from the Liberal explosion of 1848 to the con- fused attempt at a socialist, military, and municipal adminis- tration in Paris in 1871 (that ... ...nd in starvation, crushing taxation, suppression of all freedom to try new social experiments and reform ob- solete institutions, in snobbery, jobbery... ...ed too far; and everybody who rebels against it must be a rascal. Even the Social-Democrats in Germany differ from the rest only in carrying academic ... ...ic orthodoxy beyond human endur- ance—beyond even German endurance. I am a Socialist and a Democrat myself, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of th... ...f, the hero of a hundred platforms, one of the leaders of the most notable Socialist organizations in England. I am as conspicuous in English Socialis... ...if he were not too disgusting to be handled. Mimmy falls back on his stock defence: a string of maud- lin reminders of the care with which he has nurs... ...using Siegfried of hav- ing betrayed Gunther with her, a correspondence in defence of the beloved heroine was opened in The Daily Chronicle. The imput...

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...fraction of it to the Nottingham and Derby Railway. So far so good, but in social matters their aunt had accomplished noth- ing. Sooner or later the g... ... one sound man of business did more good to the world than a dozen of your social reformers, she had swallowed the curious assertion without a gasp, a... ...couldn’t invoke railways and mo- tor-cars to part them.” “That’s more like Socialism,” said Mrs. Munt sus- piciously. “Call it what you like. I call i... ...lever talk alarmed her, and with- ered her delicate imaginings; it was the social coun- terpart of a motor-car, all jerks, and she was a wisp of hay, ... ...portion of the quivering jelly? He was not a fool—she had heard him expose Socialism—but true insight began just where his intelligence ended, and one... ...’s a real man.” As she spoke their eyes met, and it was as if Mr. Wilcox’s defences fell. She saw back to the real man in him. Unwittingly she had tou... ...Wilcox, uncivilised, continued to feel anger long after he had rebuilt his defences, and was again presenting a bastion to the world. “Miss Schlegel, ... ...ld have jarred him, and never, if she could avoid it, should he lose those defences that he had chosen to raise against the world. He must never be bo...

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...re on all other libertines, and excessively conventional in professions of social principle. What is more, these professions are not hypocritical: the... ...ertines, and clamoring for their condign punishment; but this is mere self-defence. No rea- sonable person expects the burglar to confess his pursuits... ...are often needlessly magnified by penalties, ranging from various forms of social ostracism to long sentences of penal servitude, which would be seen ...