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Author: Brown, William Laurence, 1755-1830.
Title: An essay on the natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes: : to which a silver medal was adjudged by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem, April, 1792. : Corrected and enlarged. / By William Lawrence Brown, D.D. professor of moral philosophy, and the law of nature, and of ecclesiastical history; and Minister of the English church at Utrecht. ; [One line in Latin from Cicero]
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Print source: An essay on the natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties which it imposes: : to which a silver medal was adjudged by the Teylerian Society at Haarlem, April, 1792. : Corrected and enlarged. / By William Lawrence Brown, D.D. professor of moral philosophy, and the law of nature, and of ecclesiastical history; and Minister of the English church at Utrecht. ; [One line in Latin from Cicero]
Brown, William Laurence, 1755-1830.
Philadelphia:: Printed for John Ormrod, by William W. Woodward, at Franklin's Head, no. 41, Chesnut-Street., 1793.
Subject terms:
Equality.
Natural law.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19380.0001.001
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PREFACE.
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AN ESSAY, &c. BOOK I. In what Sense may all MEN be said to be EQUAL?
CHAPTER I. Of NATURAL DIVERSITIES among MEN.
CHAPTER II. Of the DISTRIBUTION of HUMAN ABILITIES and TALENTS.
CHAPTER III. Of the MUTUAL DEPENDENCE of MANKIND.
CHAPTER IV. FINAL CAUSES of the VARIETY of HUMAN TALENTS.
CHAPTER V. The just Notion of the NATURAL EQUALITY of MEN is placed in EQUALITY of OBLIGATION.—The proper TENDENCY of this DOCTRINE.
CHAPTER VI. Some Circumstances of EQUALITY not yet considered.
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AN ESSAY, &c. BOOK II. What are the RIGHTS resulting from the Natural EQUALITY of MEN?
CHAPTER I. Of the MANNER in which we acquire our NOTION of RIGHTS.
CHAPTER II. The two grand DIVISIONS of RIGHTS which flow from the Natural EQUALITY of MANKIND.
CHAPTER III. Of the ORIGINAL and INHERENT RIGHTS of HUMAN NATURE.
CHAPTER IV. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
CHAPTER V. That it is the INTEREST of GOVERNMENTS to preserve INVIOLATE the RIGHT of LIBERTY, as above explained.
CHAPTER VI. Of RIGHTS peculiar to certain STATIONS and ABILITIES.
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL INFERENCES from the WHOLE of this BOOK.
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AN ESSAY, &c. BOOK III. What are the DUTIES resulting from the EQUALITY of MANKIND?
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
CHAPTER II. All MEN, equally bound to RESPECT the PRIMITIVE RIGHTS of HUMAN NATURE.
CHAPTER III. The DUTIES of those who are placed in the INFERIOR STATIONS of LIFE, or endowed with INFERIOR CAPACITIES and POWERS.
CHAPTER IV. CAUTIONS to be observed in the PURSUIT of a HIGHER and more FLOURISHING CONDITION.
CHAPTER V. The DUTIES of those placed in the HIGHER RANKS of LIFE, and endowed with DISTINGUISHED ABILITIES.
CHAPTER VI. DUTIES common to ALL with regard to the USE of their OPPORTUNITIES and TALENTS.
CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSION.
CONTENTS.
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