[Originally printed in Facts and Comments (1902)] Were anyone to call me dishonest or untruthful he would touch me to the quick. Were he to say that I am unpatriotic, he would leave me unmoved. “What, then, have you no love of country?” That is a question not to be answered in a breath. The early abolition of serfdom in England, the early growth
[This essay is taken from chapter 19 of Spencer’s first major work of political philosophy— Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed (1851)—in which his first principle is equal liberty: “that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession
[Publicado originalmente en Facts and Comments (1902)] Si alguien me llamara deshonesto o falso, me tocaría la fibra sensible. Si dijera que soy antipatriota, me dejaría indiferente. «¿Qué, entonces, no tienes amor a la patria?» Esa es una pregunta que no se responde en un suspiro. La temprana abolición de la servidumbre en Inglaterra, el temprano
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