APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
Tile “Law of Nature” is not a command to do, or to refrain from doing, anything. It contains, in realay, nothing but a statement of that which a given being tends to do under the circumstances of its existence; and which, in the case of a li\ing and sensitive being, it is necessitated to do if it is to escape certain kinds of disability, pain and ultimate dissolution. -x- -x- -XProbabl.V none of the polit cal delusions which have sprung li\.m the “natural rights” doctrine lias been more mischevioiis than the a-.section that all men have a natural right to freedom, and that those who willingly submit to any restrict on of this freedom, beyond Liu- point, determined by the deductions a priori philosophers, deserve the title o| lint to my mind, this delusion is incomprehensible except as tlm result of the error of confounding natural with moral rights.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1931, Page 1
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152APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1931, Page 1
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