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O. A. BROWNSON, LL. D. NEW YORK: P. O'SHEA, 104 BLEECKER STREET, 1866. -- Introduction Dedicatory Letter Greeting to the Reader Chapter III. Origin of Government Chapter IV. Origin of Government - Continued Chapter V. Origin of Government - Continued Chapter VI. Origin of Government - Concluded Chapter VII. Constitution of Government Chapter VIII. Constitution of Government - Concluded Chapter IX. The United States Chapter X.Introductionhttps://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/introduction/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:28:04 -0700https://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/introduction/Introduction
In the history of international law two tendencies have struggled with one another for centuries and if it occasionally appeared as if one or the other were vanquished and stricken to the ground, it was not very long before it gave forth again powerful signs of life.1 The one dominating during the nineteenth century in general is the positivistic.2 It takes as its sole point of departure the law created by custom and conventions, consequently objectively produced.Dedicatory Letterhttps://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/dedicatory-letter/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:28:04 -0700https://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/dedicatory-letter/Dedicatory Letter
Most Illustrious and Distinguished County
Most Obliging Lord,
No slight doubt troubled my distraught mind, as to whether it would be quite proper for such an insignificant work to claim for itself the auspices of such an illustrious name. For on the one hand the smallness of the little book caused a blush because it possessed no genius or splendor, seeing that it embraced merely the first rudiments of moral philosophy excerpted almost entirely from Qur more lengthy work.Greeting to the Readerhttps://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/greeting/Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:28:04 -0700https://www.informerarchives.com/resources/on-the-office-of-man-and-citizens-under-the-natural-law/greeting/TO THE BENEVOLENT READER, GREETING!1 If the custom accepted by many erudite men had almost the force of law, it might have seemed superfluous to say anything by way of preface regarding the raison d’être of this work, since the subject matter itself tells sufficiently that I have done nothing else than set forth for beginners the chief headings of natural law, briefly, and, I think, in a clear compendium, lest, if they mingled themselves into the diffuse regions of this study beyond as it were an elementary knowledge, they be put to flight by the abundance and difficulty of the subject matter from the very beginning.