Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth : the RemedyKegan Paul, Trench, 1882 - 88 стор. |
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... turn as we grasp them to apples of Sodom that crumble at the touch . It is true that wealth has been greatly increased , and that the average of comfort , leisure , and refinement has been raised ; but these gains are not general . In ...
... turn as we grasp them to apples of Sodom that crumble at the touch . It is true that wealth has been greatly increased , and that the average of comfort , leisure , and refinement has been raised ; but these gains are not general . In ...
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... turn back . BOOK I. - WAGES AND CAPITAL . He that is to follow philosophy must be a freeman in mind . - Ptolemy . CHAPTER I. THE CURRENT DOCTRINE OF WAGES - ITS INSUFFICIENCY . REDUCING to its most compact form the problem we have set ...
... turn back . BOOK I. - WAGES AND CAPITAL . He that is to follow philosophy must be a freeman in mind . - Ptolemy . CHAPTER I. THE CURRENT DOCTRINE OF WAGES - ITS INSUFFICIENCY . REDUCING to its most compact form the problem we have set ...
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... turns the soil , the labour which secures the produce , and the produce itself , if a material profit is to be derived from its employment , are all alike capital . " But how land and labour are to be accumulated by saving them he ...
... turns the soil , the labour which secures the produce , and the produce itself , if a material profit is to be derived from its employment , are all alike capital . " But how land and labour are to be accumulated by saving them he ...
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... turning raw material into finished products- cotton into cloth , iron into hardware , leather into boots , or so on ... turn quickly back into money the increased value for which his money has really been exchanged , and is spoken of as ...
... turning raw material into finished products- cotton into cloth , iron into hardware , leather into boots , or so on ... turn quickly back into money the increased value for which his money has really been exchanged , and is spoken of as ...
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... turn made the basis of im- portant reasoning . Yet being resolved , these propositions are seen to be , not self - evident , but absurd ; for they involve the idea that labour cannot be exerted until the products of labour are saved ...
... turn made the basis of im- portant reasoning . Yet being resolved , these propositions are seen to be , not self - evident , but absurd ; for they involve the idea that labour cannot be exerted until the products of labour are saved ...
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Сторінка 35 - 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 toward 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 45 - 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 15 - In the next twenty-five years, the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions. In the next period the population would be eighty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number.
Сторінка 34 - Every colonist gets more land than he can possibly cultivate. He has no rent and scarce any taxes to pay. No landlord shares with him in its produce, and the share of the sovereign is commonly but a trifle. He has every motive to render as great as possible a produce which is thus to be almost entirely his own. But his land is commonly so extensive that with all...
Сторінка 8 - Such cases, however, are not very frequent, and in every part of Europe, twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent...
Сторінка 45 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Сторінка 73 - 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; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Сторінка 2 - ... 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 the greed of gain, the worship of wealth, shows the force of...
Сторінка 52 - The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existi ence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this ; world and others no right.
Сторінка 45 - ... apiece ; so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.