Luxury and Waste of LifeJ.M. Dent & Company, 1908 - 237 стор. |
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Adam Smith amount of satisfaction amount of waste argument artistic average income better bread capital champagne chapter charity clothes comfort consumed corn cost course Damascus steel defence of luxury definition demand depends desire diminishing returns duction economic economist encouragement enjoy enjoyment epicure equally example excessive existing expenditure upon luxuries extravagant fact fancy give harbour round important increase individual industry inventions kind labour labour-power and nature-power latter less life-power limit living luxurious consumption luxurious expenditure means of satisfaction ment money spent necessary needs never paid patronage payment penditure Pericles Phidias poor poorer possession pounds poverty line production progress purchase question reason Sarah Bernhardt satis satisfaction of wants satisfy sense servants social socialist spend spenders standard stimulus sumer sumption superfluous tendency things tion trade transfer of claims true Tyrian purples uncon wanton wealth whole workers worth
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Сторінка 38 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Сторінка 1 - By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without.
Сторінка 159 - He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Сторінка 15 - All consumption of goods and use of services, or all satisfaction of wants, which involves an expenditure normally incompatible with life upon an income of £200 per family per annum, this being the average income of the whole population of England at the present time.
Сторінка iv - Do you not see that your individual life is and can only be secured at the cost of the continual sacrifice of other lives, And that therefore you can only hold it on condition that you are ready in your turn to sacrifice it for others?
Сторінка 187 - Christians from the first but given to communists the welcome which was due to men whose motto — "from every one according to his ability and to every one according to his need...
Сторінка 224 - These are the Qualities!" He unto whom — self-centred — grief and joy Sound as one word; to whose deep-seeing eyes The clod, the marble, and the gold are one; Whose equal heart holds the same gentleness For lovely and unlovely things, firm-set, Well-pleased in praise and dispraise; satisfied With...
Сторінка 152 - ... it looks at first sight like a mere apparatus for present enjoyment ; and so far as the present feelings of those who live there go, it often is, — very many of the inhabitants are thinking only of themselves : but there is no greater benefit to the community, for all that, than this seemingly thoughtless enjoyment. It is the bait by which the fish is caught; it is the attraction by which capital is caught. To lead a bright life like that, at least that their children may lead it or something...
Сторінка 215 - ... and on the other an injury of repletion and of enervation among those who live a life of luxury. Expressed in vital terms " it uses up a portion of life which might be better used in satisfying others whose needs are greater.
Сторінка 219 - In regarding the effect of luxury upon individual character, no final test of general application, of course, is possible. " The deserts of each, the requirements of each individual's efficiency, the differences of customary position, and the differences of capacity to use and to enjoy, must all be taken into account.