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Such a tax takes away some of the benefits from the individual and, therefore, restricts his freedom. In corvee taxes this was obvious. “Now this is hidden” and disguised, but the essence of the matter is the same: “Only your labor should be devoted not to your own, but to our values,” the authorities say to the citizens; and depending on the extent to which this is brought, the citizens become slaves in one way or another 3). State intervention is not justified from a political point of view. in 1.

2) 1. 3) Justice Ch. XXXY!G.

If you are not an empiricist politician, then you need to start from strictly verified truth. It has already been obtained by previous research.

“Each of us forms a variety of humanity. The good of humanity, in the broadest sense of the word, is achieved by prospering and distributing the best varieties. After the predatory stage of progress has ended - after the onset of a stage in which competition between societies has lost the character of violence - there will come, other things being equal, a predominance of societies producing the greatest number of the best individuals."

This is achieved with the help of the repeatedly mentioned ethical law about the individual receiving the benefits and disadvantages of his nature with the limitation of not interfering with the same for others. The legislator and politician should always keep this in mind, as well as the fact that the social well-being of society and it itself are the results of natural causes.

Statesmen remain blind “to the fact that the vast and complex organization by which social life is maintained has arisen from various kinds of spontaneous co-operation of men pursuing their own private ends. True, if he asks how the globe was cleared, plowed and cultivated, how cities arose, how all kinds of industries appeared, how the arts developed, how knowledge accumulated, how literature arose, then in all these cases he is forced to admit the fact that nothing arose thanks to the government, but much suffered due to government interference. *) Despite all this, government power is constantly called upon to assist in all these cases where it has failed so many times obvious.

t) Gankhhug 2) Ch. XXYSH

AIST CHECKI ZV,

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Legislators and politicians, who still believed in the omnipotence of the state, apparently continue to believe in some kind of “sgeaNo ex pI” in social life, and not in natural, creative forces, which, on the contrary, they put obstacles in the first place.

r) Articles were written on this topic by Herbert Spencer, not included in "Vesyshiyaveg-Veuie", Soshetrogagu-Ve\1e\m, etc., then combined into a famous treatise; “Tie tai uessife se.” This ebook consists of four chapters and a rosette. In our opinion, the main philosophical idea that permeates all the chapters is the principle that we mentioned when examining the works of Spencer: upon reaching adulthood, each individual, who had hitherto enjoyed the support of the community (family, tribe, etc.), is now left more to its own forces, receives benefits and suffers losses, thanks to its own nature. Spencer seems to want to say that its well-being depends on the strength and labor of the individual itself. The first chapter of the treatise (more southerly pp. 1-26) brands as Toryism the tendency to establish philanthropic laws about the poor and, in general, to social legislation. Toryism, with its striving for more and more restrictive regulation of the individual, seems to Spencer to be a direction corresponding to that social type, which he called military. In this way of life, according to the author, Toryism was born. Toryism prefers not the path of free cooperation (the labor type), but the path of a forced, centralized system of guardianship. From the further development of the mentioned tendency, which takes on the character of state socialism, the final result is that Herbert Spencer expects the establishment of a regime that he called (Gezauase abag St. Sh-r. 26-65) “The Coming Rabetvom” (Getova ab Ypazegab un tag Cha Chezroizshte). Enslavers will be supported by a whole army of bureaucrats, government representatives. And, it is known, says G. Spencer, repeating here again his beloved A6e-paege, that the government was born out of war and supports itself by military force (militarism), distorting the natural order of society.

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“The history of all nations agrees that the monstrous evil produced by legislation guided solely by “circumstances of the cause” is to be dispelled, whereas everywhere we see the success of legislation guided by considerations of justice”?).