The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral ScienceH. C. Baird, 1872 - 433 стор. |
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... century since . While engaged in its demonstration , the author found himself constantly impelled to the use of physical facts in illustration of social phenomena , and hence was led to remark the close affinity of physical and social ...
... century since . While engaged in its demonstration , the author found himself constantly impelled to the use of physical facts in illustration of social phenomena , and hence was led to remark the close affinity of physical and social ...
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... suns of the remoter galaxies dart their radiations across the universe ; and although the Youmans . Correlation and Conservation of Forces , p . xiii . distances are so profound that hundreds of centuries may have PREFACE . xi.
... suns of the remoter galaxies dart their radiations across the universe ; and although the Youmans . Correlation and Conservation of Forces , p . xiii . distances are so profound that hundreds of centuries may have PREFACE . xi.
Сторінка xii
... centuries may have been required to traverse them , the impulses of force enter the eye , and impressing an atomic change ... century since could not have been maintained by the united efforts of all mankind . Whence , now , has come the ...
... centuries may have been required to traverse them , the impulses of force enter the eye , and impressing an atomic change ... century since could not have been maintained by the united efforts of all mankind . Whence , now , has come the ...
Сторінка xvi
... centuries marked the semi - feudal relations of village labor- has already died away , and the farmers are determined that the men shall know what ' contract ' is like . They will not take the Bishop of Glouces- ter's advice , and duck ...
... centuries marked the semi - feudal relations of village labor- has already died away , and the farmers are determined that the men shall know what ' contract ' is like . They will not take the Bishop of Glouces- ter's advice , and duck ...
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... centuries since , the English people numbered less than three millions , and when exchanges had but slight existence , labor had so little value that two hundred and twelve per- sons stand recorded as having been hired for a day to cut ...
... centuries since , the English people numbered less than three millions , and when exchanges had but slight existence , labor had so little value that two hundred and twelve per- sons stand recorded as having been hired for a day to cut ...
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Сторінка 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Сторінка xviii - It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race ; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Сторінка 240 - Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this. They found the little finger of the Company thicker than the loins of Surajah Dowlah.
Сторінка 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.
Сторінка xviii - With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment.
Сторінка 17 - This general law of agricultural industry is the most important proposition in political economy. Were the law different, nearly all the phenomena of the production and distribution of wealth would be other than they are.
Сторінка 362 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Сторінка 122 - ... the highest law in physical science which our faculties permit us to perceive, namely, the conservation of force.
Сторінка 122 - The law of conservation rigidly excludes both creation and annihilation. Waves may change to ripples, and ripples to waves, — magnitude may be substituted for number, and number for magnitude, — asteroids may aggregate to suns, suns may...
Сторінка 240 - Bengal, the misgovernment of the English was carried to a point such as seems hardly compatible with the very existence of society. The Roman proconsul, who, in a year or two, squeezed out of a province the means of rearing marble palaces and baths on the shores of Campania, of drinking from amber, of feasting on...