Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy, Том 1D. Appleton, 1870 |
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... important topics connected more or less intimately with Colo- nization : and there seems reason that the field of Political Economy should be re - surveyed in its whole extent , if only for the purpose of incorporating the results of ...
... important topics connected more or less intimately with Colo- nization : and there seems reason that the field of Political Economy should be re - surveyed in its whole extent , if only for the purpose of incorporating the results of ...
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... importance to them . A civilized government derives comparatively little advantage from taxes unless it can collect them in money and if it has large or sudden payments to make , especially payments in foreign countries for wars or ...
... importance to them . A civilized government derives comparatively little advantage from taxes unless it can collect them in money and if it has large or sudden payments to make , especially payments in foreign countries for wars or ...
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... important public and private purpose , is rightly regarded as wealth ; but every- thing else which serves any human purpose , and which nature does not afford gratuitously , is wealth also . To be wealthy is to have a large stock of ...
... important public and private purpose , is rightly regarded as wealth ; but every- thing else which serves any human purpose , and which nature does not afford gratuitously , is wealth also . To be wealthy is to have a large stock of ...
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... important distinction in the meaning of the word wealth , as applied to the possessions of an individ- ual , and to those of a nation , or of mankind . In the wealth of mankind , nothing is included which does not of itself answer some ...
... important distinction in the meaning of the word wealth , as applied to the possessions of an individ- ual , and to those of a nation , or of mankind . In the wealth of mankind , nothing is included which does not of itself answer some ...
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... acquired power of body or mind , shall be called wealth , or not : a question , not of very great importance , and which , so far as requiring discussion , will be more conveniently considered in another 26 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
... acquired power of body or mind , shall be called wealth , or not : a question , not of very great importance , and which , so far as requiring discussion , will be more conveniently considered in another 26 PRELIMINARY REMARKS .
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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.