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25. The conception of a moral ideal (however dim) is the condition of the existence of rights, and conversely anyone who is capable of such a conception is capable of rights

26. Thus the consciousness of having rights is co-ordinate with the recognition of others as having them, the ground of both being the conception of a common good which ought to be attained

27. Rights then can only subsist among 'persons,' in the moral sense of 'persons,' i.e. being possessed of rational will

28. Though the moral idea of personality is later in formulation than the legal, and this again than the actual existence of rights

29. Rights which are directly necessary to a man's acting as a moral person at all may be called in a special sense 'personal'

30. Nor is there any objection to calling them 'innate' or 'natural,' if this means 'necessary to the moral development of man' in which sense 'duties' are equally 'natural'

31. Without a society conscious of a common interest there can be only 'powers,' no 'rights'.