first edition
by [1845 Essay on Woman Rights], Women Rights
Hurlbut, E.P. Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties: By...Counselor at Law in the City of New-York. New York: Greeley & McElrath. 1845. First Edition. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards with some rubbing. 219 pages.
A treatise on social and political organization, the author enumerating the errors of Jeremy Bentham for denying the doctrine of Natural Rights. Such a denial is dangerous indeed, for it places "man's destiny in theh hands of his fellow-men, rather than in the hands of his Creator. Here is spread wide the grand entrance-door of tyranny..." Government, which is necessary to restrain individuals actions (truncated)
A treatise on social and political organization, the author enumerating the errors of Jeremy Bentham for denying the doctrine of Natural Rights. Such a denial is dangerous indeed, for it places "man's destiny in theh hands of his fellow-men, rather than in the hands of his Creator. Here is spread wide the grand entrance-door of tyranny..." Government, which is necessary to restrain individuals actions (truncated)