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... improvement in the moral as in the intellectual and physical condition of society . Riches , ' said Milton , grow in hell ; ' for even in his time much of the wealth that grew on earth bore many marks of being the property of bad and ...
... improvement in the moral as in the intellectual and physical condition of society . Riches , ' said Milton , grow in hell ; ' for even in his time much of the wealth that grew on earth bore many marks of being the property of bad and ...
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... improvement took place in the houses and dress of the lower classes , and the quality of their food . Mr. Buckle's measures seem not to fit either of the two extremes of social progress . Savages don't consider whether they are likely ...
... improvement took place in the houses and dress of the lower classes , and the quality of their food . Mr. Buckle's measures seem not to fit either of the two extremes of social progress . Savages don't consider whether they are likely ...
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... improvements have been the discoveries of free men . ' But invention is simply a phase of individuality ; and the majority of mankind were formerly a kind of slaves . Every great social and economical change in modern Europe has helped ...
... improvements have been the discoveries of free men . ' But invention is simply a phase of individuality ; and the majority of mankind were formerly a kind of slaves . Every great social and economical change in modern Europe has helped ...
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... improvement ; but it has been so , not by its exclusions , but by its inclusions ; not by dividing men from each other as foreigners , but by uniting them as fellow - citizens ; by giving to friendship and sympathy the noble area of ...
... improvement ; but it has been so , not by its exclusions , but by its inclusions ; not by dividing men from each other as foreigners , but by uniting them as fellow - citizens ; by giving to friendship and sympathy the noble area of ...
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... improvement of the human world . Beneath the seeming chaos of its current history , philosophy detects already some evidence of general order . IV . UTILITARIANISM AND THE SUMMUM BONUM . ( Macmillan's n 2 The Individual and the Crowd . 35.
... improvement of the human world . Beneath the seeming chaos of its current history , philosophy detects already some evidence of general order . IV . UTILITARIANISM AND THE SUMMUM BONUM . ( Macmillan's n 2 The Individual and the Crowd . 35.
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Page 154 - ... greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Page 154 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Page 53 - All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to -pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Page 44 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Page 45 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Page 166 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Page 36 - And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject...
Page 32 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 44 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Page 55 - It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.