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Principle I : Legal rights are presumptive rights.

William Ernest Hocking
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

William Ernest Hocking
Principle III : Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

William Ernest Hocking
And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

William Ernest Hocking
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

William Ernest Hocking
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

William Ernest Hocking
Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

William Ernest Hocking
There is, then, in these matters some absolute finding in the seeking: salvation is, to seek salvation, for in seeking it one has already abandoned mortality and his sin.

William Ernest Hocking
Religion is bound up in the difference between the sense of ignorance and the sense of mystery: the former means, "I know not"; the latter means "I know not; but it is known."

William Ernest Hocking
Principle II : The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions : they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

William Ernest Hocking