And he does reject property[161] absolutely, without any spatial or temporal limitation; nay, it even appears to him to be a legal relation which is particularly repugnant to justice.
As soon as another faith comes up before him, and with it the question whether to reject his faith or this other, reason alone can give him an answer.
Together with law Tolstoi necessarily has to reject also, for the more highly developed nations of our time, the legal institution of property.
So far as the doctrines of jurisprudential criticism negate the State, they reject it for our future in consideration of the particular circumstances that at present prevail in our case.
In consequence of his unconditional rejection of law, Godwin necessarily has to reject property also without any limitation.
So far as the doctrines of jurisprudential dogmatism negate the State, they reject it unconditionally, and so for our future as well as elsewhere, without any regard to its effects under this or that particular set of circumstances.
Proudhon does accordingly rejectthe State absolutely, without any spatial or temporal limitation; he even regards it as a legal relation which offends against justice to an unusual degree.
Since Godwin unconditionally rejects law, he necessarily has to reject the State as unconditionally.
Hence he must necessarily reject the State; for it is established by particular legal norms, and, as an involuntary legal relation, it binds even those who have not entered into any contract at all.
Hence he must necessarily reject property as well as the State, since it is established by particular legal norms, and, as an involuntary legal relation, binds even such as have in no way entered into a contract.
Together with law Tolstoi necessarily has to reject also, for the more highly developed nations of our time, the legal institution of the State.
Together with law Stirner necessarily has to reject also, just as unconditionally, the legal institution which is called State.
Together with law Stirner necessarily has to reject also, and just as unconditionally, the legal institution of property.
For this reason we must also reject the notion that child psychology can solve these ultimate problems of psychogenesis.
This being my main purpose, I believed that I might at once reject the thought of giving the various facts a proportionate degree of attention.
It amazes me that any thing could tempt you to reject such a man!
Far be it from Sidney to rejectthe proffered love of a repenting husband.
Sir George impudently insinuated, that a man must not reject a lady upon these occasions.
My mother is firm in her first resolves; could you place a crown on my head, her integrity would still oblige her to reject it; nor would a crown tempt me to forfeit the duty which I owe to her.
I can hardly suppose you so weak, as to let the absurd objection, which formerly prevented your happiness, still prevail with you to reject the same happiness, so unexpectedly again offered to your acceptance.
However, I will not reject your kindness," he added, "though I feel I am past the help of medicine.
Your insulting proposal only heightens the disgust I at first conceived for you," she added to the knight: "I reject it with scorn, and command you to let me pass.
Reject me, and you drive me to despair, and plunge me into guilt.
To the surprise of all, Pillichody did not reject his overtures.
Am I to understand, fair saint, that you would reject the earl, if he were to offer you his hand?
The theory of preoccupancy I reject absolutely, but cannot here set forth its refutation.
I entirely reject the above quoted sentence, and all the conclusions consequent thereon, and I declare it to be nothing but a shuffling trick.
I, however, entirely reject this assumption, and, as there will be no better opportunity, I shall here incidentally explain my view.
I am both court and jury, and will think it over, and reject it, if I think it should be.
And yet," he added, dejectedly, "I deserve that all the world should reject me.
It is then urged that if we reject the proposed criterion, we can have no scientific basis for Ethics; which leads to a brief discussion of the nature of Science, and the applicability of its methods to Ethics.
If you reject God, I see only two alternatives remaining.
In such a case no question of election arises and he may take the one and reject the other, unless, indeed, there are words used which make the one conditional on the acceptance of the other.
We certainly ought to reject the explanation given with great assurance in the Saturday Review, July, 1870, p.
I print in italics the names of the pieces which I reject as spurious.
In this fable, the Birds reject the Cuckoo, and choose the Eagle as king.
He never requested this, but he did not reject the kindness.
It would appear, too, that in his poetical mind there was a certain prosaical corner in which there still lurked a disposition to reject the wonderful, and the bold play of fancy, as contrary to probability and nature.
Its great obscurity is either expressly complained of by commentators, or substantiated by the fact, that all in turn reject the interpretations of their predecessors, while they cannot approve their own to those who succeed them.
Pope, as is well known, was strongly disposed to reject whole scenes as interpolations by the players; but his opinion was not much listened to.
And yet he lays the greatest stress on these; wholly devoted to religion, he had become in his age more indifferent towards the temporal plays of his muse, although he did not reject them, and still continued to add to the number.
Most of those who rejectthe current creed appear to assume that the controlling agency furnished by it may be safely thrown aside, and the vacancy left unfilled by any other controlling agency.
The former, while they reject the current creed, do not recognize the necessity for any other controlling agency.
Every one knows with what effect these passages of the Hebrew Scriptures are used by those who reject both the Old and the New Testaments as inspired books.
He must learn that his mental nature is placed under certain laws, as surely as his corporeal structure; and he must cheerfully obey the necessities which compel him to accept some conclusions and to reject others.
Mr. Spencer antagonizes those who reject the current creed against those who defend it.
They come to us--we hardly know how or whence, and once they have got possession of us we cannot reject them or change them at will.
A hundred times in the course of that night did Middleton fancy that the communication of the miscreant was entitled to some attention, and as often did he reject the idea as too wild and visionary for another thought.
And many infidels but disbelieve the least incredible things; and many bigots reject the most obvious.
I do reject your brother-hood, ye libelous remains.
The fact is, we have no national religion, and no national God; but every citizen is allowed to have a religion and a God of his own, or to reject all religions and deny the existence of all gods.
Who can imagine the infinite impudence of a church that pretends to be the mouthpiece of God, and in his name threatens to inflict eternal punishment upon those who honestly reject its claims and scorn its pretensions?
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