"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."

"Eros is a great leveller. Perhaps the true Democracy rests, more firmly than anywhere else, on a sentiment which easi…"

"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."