Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the RemedyNational Single Tax League, 1879 - 568 стор. |
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions ... Henry George Перегляд фрагмента - 1960 |
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Adam Smith amount arise become cause CHAPTER chattel slavery civilization common condition crease demand distribution of wealth doctrine drawn from capital duction effect England equal everywhere evident exchange exertion existence fact force give greater Henry George Herbert Spencer human ical idea improvement increase of population India individual industry John Stuart Mill justice labor and capital land holders land owners land values latifundia law of rent law of wages less live Malthus Malthusian theory margin of cultivation material progress ment merely monopoly natural necessary ownership paid petrifaction placer mining political economy poverty present private property produce of labor production of wealth productive power profits property in land race result secure slavery social Social Statics society soil subsistence taxation taxes tendency tends things tion truth value of land wages and interest
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Сторінка 222 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing towards the west — But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, in the country of the free.
Сторінка 467 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support...
Сторінка 426 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Сторінка 284 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Сторінка 168 - The rent of land is determined by the excess of its produce over that which the same application can secure from the least productive land in use.
Сторінка 412 - The subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State .... In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality 'or inequality of taxation.
Сторінка 276 - TJie reason why, in spite of the increase of productive power, wages constantly tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living, is that, with increase in productive power, rent tends to even greater increase, thus producing a constant tendency to the forcing down of wages.
Сторінка 10 - So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Сторінка 8 - The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamed. But in factories where labor-saving machinery has reached its most wonderful development, little children are at work; wherever the new forces are anything like fully utilized, large classes are maintained by charity or live on the verge of recourse to it; amid the greatest accumulations of wealth, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts; while everywhere...
Сторінка 167 - Rent, in short, is the price of monopoly, arising from the reduction to individual ownership of natural elements which human exertion can neither produce nor increase.