Project Gutenberg 2025-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 162 Caird, Mona 1854 1932 Caird, Alice Mona Hatton, G. Noel Personal rights : $b A presidential address delivered to the forty-first annual meeting of the Personal Rights Association on 6th June 1913 $aLondon :$bThe Personal Rights Association, $c1913. Bob 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.) "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.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/s26hdgxrwd8&seq=1 20250212102052caird 1913 GB Reading ease score: 59.4 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Civil rights -- Great Britain KD Text Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Category: Gender & Sexuality Studies Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Politics 50327 2025-07-30T05:36:34.321848 text/html 25545 2025-04-16T09:31:57 text/html 248720 2025-07-30T05:36:37.816806 application/epub+zip 247548 2025-07-30T05:36:35.741836 application/epub+zip 223976 2025-07-30T05:36:34.893848 application/epub+zip 232682 2025-07-30T05:36:39.419342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 222806 2025-07-30T05:36:37.234841 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 40041 2025-07-30T05:36:34.185851 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20053 2025-04-16T09:31:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16851 2025-07-30T05:36:39.569296 application/rdf+xml 12870 2025-07-30T05:36:35.245827 image/jpeg 2292 2025-07-30T05:36:35.068838 image/jpeg 350888 2025-07-30T05:36:34.333845 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia