Teach that men instinctively exercise these rights,
and so they are called natural rights. Searching the
newspapers for further illustrations, we shall find such
facts as these : A railroad train is wrecked, or a factory
burned, and lives lost for want of proper precautions,
showing that the people may suffer from the negligence,
as well as from the malice, of others. A dealer sells
unwholesome meat, and endangers the health of his
customers. A man utters a falsehood maliciously con-
cerning another, and injures his reputation. A child
is carried away and held by those who have no right
to do so, and the right of personal liberty is violated.
Thus, by directing attention to the violations, we may
teach the great comprehensive rights of personal secu-
rity, personal liberty, and private property, and also the
special forms which these rights include. Having done
this, we may find abundant illustrations showing the
great variety of ways in which each of those rights
may be violated. Then we may go to the general laws ;
and the pupil will be prepared to understand why there
are so many, and why they are so minute, and he will
also see the reason for the two classes of laws, — those
commanding what is right, like one requiring corpora-
tions to care for the safety of the public, and those
forbidding what is wrong.
