Principles of Social Science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - Economics |
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... whole . Tendency to the creation of local centres . The more perfect the balance of opposing forces , the greater the tendency towards human freedom . Duty of the co - ordinating power limited to the removal of obstacles to association ...
... whole . Tendency to the creation of local centres . The more perfect the balance of opposing forces , the greater the tendency towards human freedom . Duty of the co - ordinating power limited to the removal of obstacles to association ...
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... whole the highest organization presenting the most numerous differ- ences . The higher the organization , the more complete the subordination of the parts . The more perfect the subordination , the more harmonious and beautiful the ...
... whole the highest organization presenting the most numerous differ- ences . The higher the organization , the more complete the subordination of the parts . The more perfect the subordination , the more harmonious and beautiful the ...
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... whole constituting but a single circle , the more rapid the motion , the greater must necessarily be the inducement to the production of effort , and the greater the power of all to consume the commodities or things to the produc- tion ...
... whole constituting but a single circle , the more rapid the motion , the greater must necessarily be the inducement to the production of effort , and the greater the power of all to consume the commodities or things to the produc- tion ...
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... whole population is limited to scratching the earth in quest of food , large num- bers are required in harvest , for whose services there is no de- mand at other times . As employments become diversified , the workshop absorbs the labor ...
... whole population is limited to scratching the earth in quest of food , large num- bers are required in harvest , for whose services there is no de- mand at other times . As employments become diversified , the workshop absorbs the labor ...
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... whole yearly earnings of the laborers of Ireland were divided by the whole number of laborers , the result would be under this sum -FOURPENCE a day for the laborers of Ireland ! " - The more careful examination that has been suggested ...
... whole yearly earnings of the laborers of Ireland were divided by the whole number of laborers , the result would be under this sum -FOURPENCE a day for the laborers of Ireland ! " - The more careful examination that has been suggested ...
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Page 183 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 458 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion, which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Page 134 - ... difference in their productive powers. At the same time, the rent of the first quality will rise, for that must always be above the rent of the second, by the difference between the produce which they yield with a given quantity of capital and labour. 'With every step in the progress of population...
Page 418 - 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...
Page 418 - 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. A country which has this skill and experience yet to acquire, may in other respects be better adapted to the production than those which were earlier in the field...
Page 167 - 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.
Page 68 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord.
Page 332 - That the condition of the lower multitude of English labourers approximates more and more to that of the Irish competing with them in all markets; that whatsoever labour, to which mere strength with little skill will suffice, is to be done, will be done not at the English price, but at an approximation to the Irish price : at a price superior as yet to the Irish, that is, superior to scarcity of third-rate potatoes for thirty weeks yearly ; superior, yet hourly, with the arrival of every new steamboat,...
Page 339 - The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.
Page 68 - ... the general industry of the society, or to give it the most advantageous direction, is not, perhaps, altogether so evident. The general industry of the society never can exceed what the capital of the society can employ. As the number of workmen that can be kept in employment by any particular person must bear a certain proportion to his capital, so the number of those that can be continually employed by all the members of a great society must bear a certain proportion to the whole capital of...