The library of Wordsworth Donisthorpe

1. Wordsworth Donisthorpe 3 authority · 2 neutral · 1 endorsed 6 citations

   Law in a Free State

   ch. 2 · ch. 4 · chapter iv: adulteration · the adulteration bill · ch. 9 · ch. 10

   6 citations

   “Person” includes a company, “Court of competent jurisdiction” shall be read and have effect as if the debt or demand in respect of which the expression is used were a simple contract debt, and not a debt or demand created by statute.

2. Charles Darwin 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   Law in a Free State

   ch. 7 · chapter vi: marriage

   2 citations

   and honest evolutionists have faith enough in the final triumph of truth, not to require or desire even the unconscious assistance of their adversaries.

3. Adam Smith 1 extended 1 citation

   Law in a Free State

   ch. 10

   1 citation

   The theory of labour capitalisation is based on the doctrine propounded by Adam Smith, but not adhered to by him throughout his writings, that the labourer is a species of capital.

4. Ethics Baruch Spinoza 1 refuted 1 citation

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   chapter vi: marriage

   1 citation

   And Spinoza condemns love as “a species of madness,” and as promoting “discord rather than harmony.

5. First Epistle to Timothy St. Paul 1 refuted 1 citation

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   chapter vi: marriage

   1 citation

   Paul warns Timothy against young1 widows, because, says he, when they “wax wanton they will marry again;

6. First Epistle to the Corinthians St. Paul 1 refuted 1 citation

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   chapter vi: marriage

   1 citation

   Paul, the Christian writer, holds this view very strongly.

7. First Principles Herbert Spencer 1 neutral 1 citation

   Law in a Free State

   ch. 2

   1 citation

   Such a law would give a scientific writer copyright, not only in his book, but in the discoveries and theories contained in it.

8. George Bernard Shaw 1 extended 1 citation

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   chapter vi: marriage

   1 citation

   Shaw seems to hope that although for the present the way to perfect love lies through the Venusberg, the time will come when our children will be born on the other side of it “and so be spared that fiery purgation.

9. Gospel of Matthew Matthew 1 authority 1 citation

   Law in a Free State

   ch. 11

   1 citation

   Moreover, it is not only colloquial but classical.

10. Herbert Spencer 1 authority 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    preface

    1 citation

    Herbert Spencer.

11. Iliad Homer 1 neutral 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    chapter vi: marriage

    1 citation

    The gods of Olympus sided with the abducer of Brisēis;

12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1 refuted 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    ch. 3

    1 citation

    Locke's pretence that the individual citizens reserved certain liberties when the State was formed is of course the merest allegory, without any more foundation, in fact, than Rousseau's Contrat Social.

13. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1 endorsed 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    ch. 3

    1 citation

    And this is why Hobbes (who always built on fact) describes the power of the State as absolute.

14. News from Nowhere William Morris 1 neutral 1 citation

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    chapter vi: marriage

    1 citation

    Morris tells us that this will still be so in the year two thousand and one.

15. On Liberty John Stuart Mill 1 refuted 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    ch. 3

    1 citation

    The principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection:

16. Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill 1 refuted 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    chapter vi: marriage

    1 citation

    “Prudence, my good fellow, self-control,” cry Mill and his followers;

17. Progress and Poverty Henry George 1 refuted 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    ch. 3

    1 citation

    It is on a par with the “natural right” of every citizen born into the world to an acre of land and a good education.

18. Robert Burns 1 authority 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    chapter vi: marriage

    1 citation

    The mutual love which ends with the life, which is strengthened by time and memories and attachment to the children, and which is sanctified by freedom, is the latest and noblest development of the sexual emotion.

19. Samuel Johnson 1 neutral 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    chapter vi: marriage

    1 citation

    Johnson define music as the least disagreeable of noises, and let St.

20. Second Treatise of Government John Locke 1 refuted 1 citation

    Law in a Free State

    ch. 3

    1 citation

    Locke's pretence that the individual citizens reserved certain liberties when the State was formed is of course the merest allegory, without any more foundation, in fact, than Rousseau's Contrat Social.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Law in a Free State

Koran · Old Testament ¶ · Statute of Frauds ¶ · Vaccination Acts · 23 & 24 Vict. c. 32 · A Plea for Liberty · A Plea for the Abolition of Illegitimacy (pamphlet) · Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 32 · Act of Queen Anne's reign (relief for Christian children of Jewish parents) · Act of William III (relief for Protestant children of Roman Catholic parents) · Blackstone · British Pharmacopœia · Canon law principle of legitimation per subsequens matrimonium · Christian Morals · Code Napoléon (provisions on adoption and public acknowledgment of illegitimate children) · Commentaries on the Laws of England ¶ · Commentaries on the Laws of England (doctrine of absolute rights) · Commentaries on the Laws of England (the bona fide purchaser rule) · Contagious Diseases Acts · Decameron · Divine Right of Kings (doctrine) · Doctrine of laissez faire · Essay on the Principle of Population · Faust · Frankenstein · Free Library Acts · Free Life (articles vindicating monogamy) · French State secular-education policy (Ferry Laws) · Genesis (Adam's naming of the animals) · Godwin's characterization of loveless marriage as unchastity · Gospel of John (on a woman's joy after childbirth) · Government: Anarchy or Regimentation? · Hares and Rabbits Act · Herbert's stated position on marriage and enforcement of contract · History of European Morals · Il Trovatore · Illegitimate Children: An Inquiry into their Personal Rights, and a Plea for the Abolition of Illegitimacy · Letter to Jus (18 November) · Lexicon of Kakophemisms · Licensing Acts · Lohengrin · Married Women's Property Acts ¶ · Merchant Shipping Act · Metropolitan Buildings Acts · Mr. Henry George, the "Orthodox" · Municipal Socialism · O'Brien's stated position on marriage contract and compensation · Personal Talk · Pharmacy Act, 1868 · Political usage of the term 'National' · Pollard v. Photographic Co. · Prince Albert v. Strange · R. v. Bryan · Remark on counting heads to save the trouble of fighting (quoted saying) · Roman law ¶ · Roman sumptuary law on meals · Scots law of legitimation per subsequens matrimonium · Socratic dialectic method · Statement of the Legitimation League's objects · Statement on justifiable methods against the State (quoted remarks) · Statement on minorities defying majorities (quoted remarks) · Statutes 2 P. & M. c. 7 and 31 Eliz. c. 12 (market overt / horse-dealing statutes) · Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law · Symposium on the Land Question · Tenant's Compensation Bill · The Bible · The School for Scandal · Traite de feu · Untitled essay/remarks on government, law, and taxation · Voluntary Taxation · White v. Bayward · account of dress customs and clerical preaching against fashion · account of new-fangled cookery · an early statute concerning archery and unlawful games · an early statute fixing the price of poultry · an early statute restricting hunting and the keeping of hounds · an early sumptuary statute regulating dress and apparel · an unnamed work on education · argument for a general right to privacy in thoughts, emotions, and sensations · art criticism on drapery and the nude figure · article advocating State purchase of the railways · article on the right to privacy (Harvard Law Review, 1890) · calculation that unrestricted civilised populations double every twelve and a half years · classification of rights in rem (jurisprudential writings) · coined phrase 'chance pup' / 'chance children' · commentary on Mr. Pickard's remark · commentary on the case of R. v. Bryan · commentary that a municipality would be justified in undertaking a theatre if the majority of ratepayers desired it · critique of the capitalisation theory · critique of the induction argument from historical tendencies · dictum that adoption should follow nature · doctrine of nationalising mines, factories, ships, gasworks, and land · early Roman law of the Republic requiring marriage before conception · his political writings on anarchism · his reply to Mill's principle of self-protection · his writings on anarchism · laws relating to oaths and blasphemy · lecture on Laissez-Faire (1883) · letter to Wordsworth Donisthorpe · letter to Wordsworth Donisthorpe (4 November 1881) · old Roman law rule on eligibility for legitimation · old maxim of English law on the making of heirs · proposal for municipal theatre nationalisation · proposed bill embodying the principle of inviolate personality · remark on trade-union versus legislative regulation of hours · remark that a man is entitled to be protected in the exclusive use and enjoyment of that which is exclusively his · reply of the barons of England rejecting alteration of the laws of England · statement on claimant fathers and heirship · surmise on the scope of Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 32 · the 'Modern Babylon' newspaper exposé · the Act against making cloth by machinery · the Bible (Acts of the Apostles, Gamaliel's counsel) · the Lord's Day Observance Act · the Statute of Labourers ¶ · the books of Moses · the doctrine of the tendency of wages to a minimum · the law of partnerships and of joint-stock companies · the poor laws · the seventh Tippling Act of James I and the Tippling Acts generally · the statutes of Plantagenet days against forestalling and regrating and usury · unnamed leading writer's statement that unchastity is union without love · unnamed work/argument on justice and jury consensus · unnamed writer's passage on compensating a deserted wife, quoted with approval by O'Brien · writings on jurisprudence (doctrine of inborn natural rights)

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1. Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 3 authority · 2 neutral · 1 endorsed 6 citations · 13 passages

   ch. 2 · ch. 4 2 passages anchored here · chapter iv: adulteration · the adulteration bill 7 passages anchored here · ch. 9 · ch. 10

   The author quotes his own letter directly and relies on it as documentary authority establishing his early authorship of the voluntary-taxation idea.

   The earliest mention of any such system of taxation, so far as I am aware, is contained in a letter which I had occasion to write to Lord Derby at the time of the Patent Law agitation in 1872.