"The poacher … is asserting a right (and an instinct) belonging to a past time—when for hunting purposes all land was …"

"Edward Carpenter was born at Brighton one hundred years ago. Few people recall him to-day, and those who do probably …"

"Government and laws and police then fall into their places - the earth gives her own laws; Democracy just begins to o…"

"Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man…"

"To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You …"

"Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant."

"I can see only one ultimate way out of the morass in which we are engulfed. The present commercial system will have t…"

"Today these taboos and terrors still linger, many of them, in the form of conventions of morality, uneasy strivings o…"

"The law is in a sense the consolidated public opinion of society."

"The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it."