The Poverty Problem in India: Being a Dissertation on the Causes and Remedies of Indian PovertyThacker, Spink & Company, 1895 - 342 стор. |
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Сторінка 51
... this question . When Rome was mistress of the world , when ' the increasing revenue of the provin- ces was found sufficient to defray the ordinary establishment of war and govern- ment , ' when FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION . 51.
... this question . When Rome was mistress of the world , when ' the increasing revenue of the provin- ces was found sufficient to defray the ordinary establishment of war and govern- ment , ' when FREE TRADE VS. PROTECTION . 51.
Сторінка 52
... ment , ' when the Roman people ' was for ever delivered from the weight of taxes , ' in those halcyon days of Roman prosperity , protection was followed with a certain amount of vengeance . Gibbon tells us : ' In the reign of Augustus ...
... ment , ' when the Roman people ' was for ever delivered from the weight of taxes , ' in those halcyon days of Roman prosperity , protection was followed with a certain amount of vengeance . Gibbon tells us : ' In the reign of Augustus ...
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... ment . For , the simple fact that native industries were most earnestly and judi- ' ciously encouraged and patronised by those Asiatic despots , would alone out- weigh in the balance all those humanitarian and philanthropic doctrines ...
... ment . For , the simple fact that native industries were most earnestly and judi- ' ciously encouraged and patronised by those Asiatic despots , would alone out- weigh in the balance all those humanitarian and philanthropic doctrines ...
Сторінка 122
... India has in many departments of its industrial develop- ment made very fair progress ; but I confess that when I consider what that progress has been , when I consider the resources of this 122 INDIAN ARTS AND MANUFACTURES .
... India has in many departments of its industrial develop- ment made very fair progress ; but I confess that when I consider what that progress has been , when I consider the resources of this 122 INDIAN ARTS AND MANUFACTURES .
Сторінка 126
... ment of our resources is not altogether an unmixed good . It tends not only to unmake us for the race of life , but drains a consi- derable amount of money which annually . increases in geometrical proportion . Yet our eyes are blind to ...
... ment of our resources is not altogether an unmixed good . It tends not only to unmake us for the race of life , but drains a consi- derable amount of money which annually . increases in geometrical proportion . Yet our eyes are blind to ...
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Сторінка 45 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience.
Сторінка 300 - ... oblige so great a number to encroach upon their capitals, upon the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour, that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate the waste and degradation of produce occasioned by this violent and forced encroachment.
Сторінка 46 - Rae, that nothing has a greater tendency to promote improvements in any branch of production than its trial under a new set of conditions. But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Сторінка 299 - Such are the people who compose a numerous and splendid court, a great ecclesiastical establishment, great fleets and armies, who in time of peace produce nothing, and in time of war acquire nothing which can compensate the expense of maintaining them, even while the war lasts.
Сторінка 300 - ... who should reproduce it next year. The next year's produce, therefore, will be less than that of the foregoing, and if the same disorder should continue, that of the third year will be still less than that of the second. Those unproductive hands, who should be maintained by a part only of the spare revenue of the people, may consume so great a share of their whole revenue, and...
Сторінка 236 - The state must act by general rules. It cannot undertake to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving indigent. It owes no more than subsistence to the first, and can give no less to the last. What is said about the injustice of a law which has no better treatment for the merely unfortunate poor than for the ill-conducted, is founded on a misconception of the province of law and public authority. The dispensers of public relief have no business to be inquisitors.
Сторінка 326 - During that interval the business of a servant of the Company was simply to wring out of the natives a hundred or two hundred thousand pounds as speedily as possible, that he might return home before his constitution had suffered from the heat, to marry a peer's daughter, to buy rotten boroughs in Cornwall, and to give balls in St. James's Square.
Сторінка 36 - The result to the interests of the two countries will be as already pointed out: the paying country will give a higher price for all that it buys from the receiving country, while the latter, besides receiving the tribute, obtains the exportable produce of the tributary country at a lower price.
Сторінка 36 - The result is, that a country which makes regular payments to foreign countries, besides losing what it pays, loses also something more, by the less advantageous terms on which it is forced to exchange its productions for foreign commodities.
Сторінка 123 - At the root of much of the poverty of the people of India, and of the risks to which they are exposed in seasons of scarcity, lies the unfortunate circumstance that agriculture forms almost the sole occupation of the mass of the population, and that no remedy for present evils can be complete which does not include the introduction of a diversity of occupations, through which the surplus population may be drawn from agricultural pursuits and led to find the means of subsistence in manufactures or...