 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...utilitarians before Paley, see Jacob Viner, The Role of Proridence in the Social Order (1972), p. 71. I45 If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn: and if, instead of each picking what and where it liked, you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they had got into a heap,... | |
 | J. B. Schneewind - 2003 - 696 pages
...chapter entitled "Of Property," which opens Book HI of his Moral and Political Philosophy, he wrote: If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...if (instead of each picking where and what it liked . . . ) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for... | |
 | Alan P. R. Gregory - 2003 - 308 pages
...most striking example of this is the famous pigeon analogy that introduces the discussion of property: If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of com; and if (instead of each picking where, and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted and... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 434 pages
...Christianity " (1794) ; "Natural Theology " (1802). ON PROPERTY. (From " Moral and Political Philosophy.") IP you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...each picking where and what it liked, taking just what it wanted, and no more — you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap,... | |
 | 196 pages
...bless you ! " exclaimed the beggar ; "may your honour live until I pay you." 14. The Nature of Property If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...if, instead of each picking where and what it liked, you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves... | |
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IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn : and if (instead Of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing... 
