| | 4 | Author: | Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. Or, a dissertation concerning man in his severall
habitudes and respects, as the member of a society, first secular, and then sacred. Containing the elements of civill politie in
the agreement which it hath both with naturall and divine lawes. In which is demonstrated, both what the origine of justice is,
and wherein the essence of Christian religion doth consist. Together with the nature, limits, and qualifications both of regiment
and subjection.  | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LibertyEngraving and verse from 1651 De Cive by Thomas Hobbes | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 9 | Author: | Sanger, Margaret | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman and the New Race | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE most far-reaching social development of modern times is the
revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the
remaking of the world is a free motherhood. Beside this force, the
elaborate international programmes of modern statesmen are weak and
superficial. Diplomats may formulate leagues of nations and nations may
pledge their utmost strength to maintain them, statesmen may dream of
reconstructing the world out of alliances, hegemonies and spheres of
influence, but woman, continuing to produce explosive populations, will
convert these pledges into the proverbial scraps of paper; or she may,
by controlling birth, lift motherhood to the plane of a voluntary,
intelligent function, and remake the world. When the world is thus
remade, it will exceed the dream of statesman, reformer and
revolutionist. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Hume, David | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Of the First Principles of Government | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human
affairs with a philosophical eve, than the easiness with which
the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission,
with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those
of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is
effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of
the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but
opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is
founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most
military governments, as well as to the most free and most
popular. The soldan of EGYPT, or the emperor of ROME, might drive
his harmless subjects, like brute beasts, against their
sentiments and inclination: But he must, at least, have led his
mamalukes, or praetorian bands, like men, by their opinion. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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