Three Lectures on the Questions, Should the Principles of Political Economy be Disregarded at the Present Crisis? and If Not, how Can They be Applied Towards the Discovery of Measures of Relief?.Hodges and Smith, 1847 - 61 стор. |
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Сторінка 29 - The smallness of the farms, as they are usually let, together with other circumstances, to which it is not necessary to advert, render the introduction of the English system extremely difficult, and in many cases impracticable. It is admitted on all hands, that according to the general practice in Ireland, the landlord builds neither dwelling-house nor farm-offices, nor puts fences, gates, &c. into good order, before he lets his land to a tenant. The cases in which a landlord does any of those things...
Сторінка 29 - It is well known, that in England and Scotland, before " a landlord offers a farm for letting, he finds it necessary " to provide a suitable farm-house, with necessary farm" buildings, for the proper management of the farm. He " puts the gates and fences into good order, and he also " takes upon himself a great part of the burden of keeping " the buildings in repair during the term ; and the rent is " fixed with reference to this state of things. Such, at " least, is generally the case, although...
Сторінка 60 - And in the pursuit of this object, without any comprehensive wisdom, or any need of it, they cooperate, unknowingly, in conducting a system which, we may safely say, no human wisdom directed to that end could have conducted so well : — the system by which this enormous population is fed from day to day.
Сторінка 25 - ... it would be impossible to describe adequately the sufferings and privations which the cottiers and labourers and their families in most part of the country endure ;" that " in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water ;" that " their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather ; " that " a bed ora blanket is a rare luxury ; " and that " nearly in all, their pig and their manure heap constitute their only property...
Сторінка 18 - That political economy should have been complained of as hostile to religion, will probably be regarded a century hence (should the fact be then on record) with the same wonder, almost approaching to incredulity, with which we, of the present day, hear of men sincerely opposing, on religious grounds, the Copernican system. But till the advocates of Christianity shall have become universally much better acquainted with the true character of their religion, than, universally, they have ever yet been,...
Сторінка 14 - The unlimited, unrestrained freedom of the corn trade, as it is the only effectual preventative of the miseries of a famine, so it is the best palliative of the inconveniences of a dearth; for the inconveniences of a real scarcity cannot be remedied, they can only be palliated.
Сторінка 18 - Christian duty to do good to our fellow-creatures, both in their spiritual and in their temporal concerns : and if so, it must be also a duty to study, to the best of our ability, to understand in what their good consists, and how it is to be promoted. To represent therefore any branch of such study as inconsistent with Christianity, is to make Christianity inconsistent with itself.
Сторінка 15 - Economy takes cognizance, all would have proceeded so smoothly, that probably no attention would ever have been called to the subject. The transactions of society would have been like the play of the lungs, the contractions of the muscles, and the circulation of the blood, in a healthy person ; who scarcely knows that these functions exist.
Сторінка 41 - The fundamental principle with respect to the legal relief of the poor is, that the condition of the pauper ought to be, on the whole, less eligible than that of the independent labourer.
Сторінка 53 - By the word Abstinence, we wish to express that agent, distinct from labour and the agency of nature, the concurrence of- which is necessary to the existence of Capital, and which stands in the same relation to Profit as Labour does to Wages.