Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Том 1D. Appleton, 1870 |
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... already exist , may be thought to require some explanation . It might perhaps be sufficient to say , that no existing treatise on Political Economy contains the latest improvements which have been made in the theory of the subject ...
... already exist , may be thought to require some explanation . It might perhaps be sufficient to say , that no existing treatise on Political Economy contains the latest improvements which have been made in the theory of the subject ...
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... already as determinate as practical purposes re- quire . But , little as it might be expected that any mis- chievous confusion of ideas could take place on a subject so simple as the question , what is to be considered as wealth , it is ...
... already as determinate as practical purposes re- quire . But , little as it might be expected that any mis- chievous confusion of ideas could take place on a subject so simple as the question , what is to be considered as wealth , it is ...
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... already become agri- cultural ; until , these having become sufficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this out- let , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great ...
... already become agri- cultural ; until , these having become sufficiently powerful to repel such inroads , the invading nations , deprived of this out- let , were obliged also to become agricultural communities . But after this great ...
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... already occupied by settled communities . The knowledge which in such a position was acquired of foreign productions , and the easy access of for- eign ideas and inventions , made the chain of routine , usually so strong in a rude ...
... already occupied by settled communities . The knowledge which in such a position was acquired of foreign productions , and the easy access of for- eign ideas and inventions , made the chain of routine , usually so strong in a rude ...
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... Already , in the later times of the Roman empire , predial slavery had extensively trans- formed itself into a kind of serfdom : the coloni of the Romans were rather villeins than actual slaves ; and the incapacity and distaste of the ...
... Already , in the later times of the Roman empire , predial slavery had extensively trans- formed itself into a kind of serfdom : the coloni of the Romans were rather villeins than actual slaves ; and the incapacity and distaste of the ...
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Сторінка 541 - Happily, there is nothing in the laws of Value which remains for the present or any future writer to clear up ; the theory of the subject is complete...
Сторінка 355 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 164 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Сторінка 4 - For practical purposes, political economy is inseparably intertwined with many other branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character of purely economical questions, which admit of being decided on economical premises alone.
Сторінка 166 - ... the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Сторінка 274 - The social arrangements of modern Europe commenced from a distribution of property which was the result, not of just partition, or acquisition by industry, but of conquest and violence: and notwithstanding what industry has been doing for many centuries to modify the work of force, the system still retains many and large traces of its origin.
Сторінка 470 - For the purpose therefore of altering the habits of the labouring people, there is need of a twofold action, directed simultaneously upon their intelligence and their poverty. An effective national education of the children of the labouring class, is the first thing needful: and, coincidently with this, a system of measures which shall (as the devolution did in France) extinguish extreme poverty for one whole generation.
Сторінка 263 - The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths.
Сторінка 301 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Сторінка 19 - It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.