M. D. O'Brien
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Mr. O'Brien · Mr. M. D. O'Brien · O'Brien
in the texts
Law in a Free State
Individualist writer who, unlike Herbert, argues in Free Life that the State should jealously preserve the existing monogamous marriage system, and who disputes the author's free-system proposal.
O'Brien, on the other hand, holds that the present marriage system ought to be jealously preserved by the State, and in support of this contention he devotes two long articles in Free Life to a vindication of monogamy, whereby the real issue is completely evaded.
O'Brien says, “All that the law can do is to make those who break the contract bear the losses resulting from such breaking.
O'Brien quotes with approval the following passage from another writer: