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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. NATURE AND CONDITIONS OF A STATE''S SECURITY. The further point which has yet to be proved is, that the security of the ruler and the liberty of his subjects are inseparable, his authority and their happiness being but different aspects of the same thing; and that this identity of interest is symbolised, and furthered, by a good constitution or system of law. For in this way both the monarch and his subjects will feel that they are making the most of themselves, and that the relation which binds them inseparably together is not a limitation of their freedom and power, but the soul, and the essence of it. There are, then, two interests which every constitution that is really to work must include and do justice to. It must, on the one hand, make it the direct interest of the ruler to do what is also for the common welfare. And it must make it the direct interest of each subject to yield obedience to the ruler''s commands. To take the latter point first. Men will only obey when they will, on the whole, in their own judgment, gain more, or do better for themselves, by yielding, than by refusing to yield such allegiance. They have no right, or duty, to give up the government of the lives which God has bestowed upon them, except as they judge that some one else will enable them to rule them to their own greater advantage. This, therefore, is one inviolable side of the relation between King and subject. None but utter barbarians will allow themselves to be made slaves, useless to themselves. And no civil authority has any greater sanction, or right, than the welfare which it enables each man to desire and to attain. The soul of all authority is always the goodness, or advantage, or the hold over the world and over objects of desire and of satisfaction, wh... Robert Alexander Duff, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Spinoza's political and ethical philosophy Books>Religion and Spirituality, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217057318

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