Principles of social science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - Economics |
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... owner can prevent all intercourse with the world except through himself , the more perfect is his power to determine what shall be his own proportion of the food and cotton , and how much he will leave to be divided among his people ...
... owner can prevent all intercourse with the world except through himself , the more perfect is his power to determine what shall be his own proportion of the food and cotton , and how much he will leave to be divided among his people ...
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... owner can prevent inter- course among the men who produce corn and sugar , the greater - must be their demand for ships , and the greater must be his power to determine what shall be the proportion of the cargo allotted to him for ...
... owner can prevent inter- course among the men who produce corn and sugar , the greater - must be their demand for ships , and the greater must be his power to determine what shall be the proportion of the cargo allotted to him for ...
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... owner perishing for want of food . Bring the consumer and the producer together , and then instant consumption follows the instant production - all the power yielded by the food being thus economized . Society then tends to take upon ...
... owner perishing for want of food . Bring the consumer and the producer together , and then instant consumption follows the instant production - all the power yielded by the food being thus economized . Society then tends to take upon ...
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... owners in commanding the people's services under a system so nearly akin to serfage . In 1496 , a new statute fixed the year's wages at 16s . 8d . , with an allowance of 4s . for clothing ; but so ineffectual did it prove , that within ...
... owners in commanding the people's services under a system so nearly akin to serfage . In 1496 , a new statute fixed the year's wages at 16s . 8d . , with an allowance of 4s . for clothing ; but so ineffectual did it prove , that within ...
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... owner tends naturally to increase , and that of the laborer to diminish . the tendency towards a state of slavery in- creasing as matter tends more and more to take upon itself the highest form of which it is capable — that of man . The ...
... owner tends naturally to increase , and that of the laborer to diminish . the tendency towards a state of slavery in- creasing as matter tends more and more to take upon itself the highest form of which it is capable — that of man . The ...
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Page 175 - 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 175 - ... pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health, — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal, — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice, — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride, — at bed or board, couchant or levant, — we must pay.
Page 249 - 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 414 - 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 159 - 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 126 - With every step in the progress of population, which shall oblige a country to have recourse to land of a worse quality, to enable it to raise its supply of food, rent, on all the more fertile land, will rise.
Page 144 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 414 - 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 60 - 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 350 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes.