Principles of Social Science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - Economics |
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Page ii
... enable man more thoroughly to direct the forces of nature to his service - wealth consisting in the existence of that power of direction . The greater the power of man over nature , the more rapid the progress of accumulation ...
... enable man more thoroughly to direct the forces of nature to his service - wealth consisting in the existence of that power of direction . The greater the power of man over nature , the more rapid the progress of accumulation ...
Page iii
... direct ratio of the tendency of capital to become fixed and immovable . Historic illustrations ........... 4. The more rapid the circulation , the greater the tendency towards the cre- ation of local centres , towards the development of ...
... direct ratio of the tendency of capital to become fixed and immovable . Historic illustrations ........... 4. The more rapid the circulation , the greater the tendency towards the cre- ation of local centres , towards the development of ...
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... direct taxation , in Great Britain ..................... . 27. Labor and land the ultimate payers of all contributions for the support of government . The more direct the application to them , the lighter the bur- then of taxation 185 ...
... direct taxation , in Great Britain ..................... . 27. Labor and land the ultimate payers of all contributions for the support of government . The more direct the application to them , the lighter the bur- then of taxation 185 ...
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... direct taxation tends to supersede those which are indirect , are those which have protected themselves against the British system . Failure of the United States in this respect ..... 191 10. The more direct the taxation , the less will ...
... direct taxation tends to supersede those which are indirect , are those which have protected themselves against the British system . Failure of the United States in this respect ..... 191 10. The more direct the taxation , the less will ...
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... direct ratio of the separation of the prices of raw materials and finished commodities . British policy looks to widening the space between them . Countries which follow in the lead of England , are those which furnish the facts ...
... direct ratio of the separation of the prices of raw materials and finished commodities . British policy looks to widening the space between them . Countries which follow in the lead of England , are those which furnish the facts ...
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Page 185 - 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 185 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 468 - 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 261 - It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
Page 169 - 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 428 - 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 428 - 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 422 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.
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 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...