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149. These are 'private' rights, divided by Stephen into (a) personal, (b) rights of property, (c) rights in private relations

150. All rights are 'personal'; but as a man's body is the condition of his exercising rights at all, the rights of it may be called 'personal' in a special sense

151. The right of 'life and liberty' (better, of 'free life'), being based on capacity for society, belongs in principle to man as man, though this is only gradually recognised

152. At first it belongs to man as against other members of his family or tribe, then as against other tribes, then as against other citizens, which in antiquity still implies great limitations

153. Influences which have helped to break down these limitations are (a) Roman equity, (b) Stoicism, (c) the Christian idea of a universal brotherhood

154. This last is the logical complement of the idea that man as such has a right to life; but the right is only negatively recognised in modern Christendom

155. It is ignored e.g. in war, nor is much done to enable men to fulfil their capacities as members of humanity