Description
The third printing of Natural Law; or The Science of Justice, published in 1885.
Octavo, [5]-21pp. Stated “Third edition printed in May, 1885” on the copyright page, following the first printing from February, 1882. The work is noted as the “Part First” on the title page, part of a planned larger treatise on natural law, but no subsequent volumes were printed. Soiling to covers, bound with staples at the spine. A scarce work. (OCLC 60712670)
From Spooner: “In this pamphlet, I have endeavored to controvert distinctly the proposition that, by any possible process whatever, any man, or body of men, can become possessed of any right of arbitrary domination over other men, or other men’s property; or, consequently, any right whatever to make any law whatever, of their own – distinct from the laws of nature – and compel any other men to obey it. (Spooner Reader, 118)
