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100 1 _aCaird, Mona,
_d1854-1932
245 1 0 _aPersonal rights
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-16
508 _aBob Taylor, Mairi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Personal rights : A presidential address delivered to the forty-first annual…" by Mrs. Mona Caird is a political and philosophical pamphlet written in the early 20th century. The book presents a presidential address delivered at the Personal Rights Association’s annual meeting, focusing on the concept of personal rights and individual liberty within society. It belongs to the genre of political discourse or advocacy literature, reflective of the era's social reform movements, particularly around the issues of personal freedom, state intervention, and social justice. The likely topic is a critical examination of how individual rights can be threatened by prevailing social and governmental trends, especially when justified for the “greater good.” The content of the book concerns the growing dangers posed when society prioritizes collective interests over individual liberty. Mrs. Caird warns against the tendency to justify encroachments on personal rights for social benefit, invoking historical and contemporary examples, such as the suppression of originality and proposals for extreme measures in science and public health. She emphasizes that liberty, once lost, is rarely restored and that both men and women suffer when society devalues personal freedom. Caird argues that protecting personal rights is not only essential for justice but also for fostering creativity, progress, and the true flourishing of humanity. Ultimately, she advocates for a universal respect for individual liberty as the foundation for a vibrant, dynamic, and advancing civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: The Personal Rights Association, 1913
653 _aCivil rights -- Great Britain
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/s26hdgxrwd8&seq=1
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75874
999 _c116599
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