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Common terms and phrases
according Adam Müller Adam Smith aggregate agriculture Aristotle become called cameralistic cameralistic science capital cent century Cicero civilization classes commerce Compare condition considered coöperation debtor distinguishes division of labor economists element emancipation England entirely especially estimated existence external fact former France freedom German Geschichte greater number hand Handbuch Hence Hermann historical method human idea important increase individual industry instance intellectual interest kinds kingdom of Saxony land latter manufactures material means ment million moral nations nature necessary nomic obtain Plutarch Political Economy politique population possess principles production public economy relation Richesses Roscher rule Russia Schäffle SECTION serfs servants slavery slaves social society Staatswirthschaft Storch Strabo thalers theory things Thucyd tion trade Traité Turgot value in exchange Volkswirthschaftslehre wages wants wealth wheat whole Wolowski wont workmen Xenoph
Popular passages
Page 164 - Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature ; with every rood of land brought into cultivation which is capable of growing food for human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up ; all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food ; every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated...
Page 168 - Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as Lands are the Mother...
Page 414 - A COMPENDIOUS OR BRIEFE EXAMINATION OF CERTAYNE ORDINARY COMPLAINTS OF DIVERS OF OUR COUNTRYMEN IN THESE OUR DAYES...
Page 129 - We may rather compare it to a highly elastic and extensible band, which is hardly ever so violently stretched that it could not possibly be stretched any more; yet the pressure of which is felt long before the final limit is reached, and felt more severely the nearer that limit is approached.
Page 155 - England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months. A very small proportion indeed of that large aggregate was in existence ten years ago; of the present productive capital of the country scarcely any part, except farmhouses and...
Page 202 - But to separate the arts which form the citizen and the statesman, the arts of policy and war, is an attempt to dismember the human character, and to destroy those very arts we mean to improve.
Page 28 - We need not recall Turgot's historical researches. Malthus' chief title to distinction, his work on Population, is as much a historical work as a politico-economical one ; and it is not sufficiently known that he was professor of history and Political Economy in the college of the East India Company at Aylesbury. We need say no more on this subject. The works of the other writers whom we have mentioned are too well known to permit any one to think that they excluded history and moral science from...
Page 171 - What we call commodities is nothing but land severed from the soil — Man deals in nothing but earth. The merchants are the factors of the world, to exchange one part of the earth for another. The king himself is fed by the labour of the ox: and the clothing of the army and victualling of the navy must all be paid for to the owner of the soil as the ultimate receiver. All things in the world...
Page 267 - In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a sinecurist quartered on it.
Page 154 - He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.