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Quotes from The Fiction of Natural Rights — Dyer Lum

1839–1893 United States

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To my mind, the very assumption of “natural rights” is at war with evolution.

The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

Precisely as water flows to a level when obstructions are removed, just so will social relations flow to equitable conditions when restrictions are swept away. And precisely also as liberty comes in does the assertion of “rights” go out.

The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

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