Individualism: A System of Politics1894 - Individualism - 393 pages |
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Act of Parliament action admit argument Auberon Herbert better called capital capitalist Church citizens civilisation co-operation common compulsory cost course definition demand doctrine economists effect employer England English equal evil existence fact favour fee simple force freedom Fyffe hands increased individual individualist industry interest interference Ireland J. S. Mill Joynes justice kind labour laissez-faire land landlord landowner legislation less liberty Lord Salisbury majority matter means ment moral nation nature necessary neo-radical object opinion organisation owner ownership Parliament party persons political practical present principle production profits proprietor question reason recognised reformers regard rent result Roman law rule sense serfdom share slaves social socialists society Spencer suppose surplus value tend tendency term things tion tithes trade true truth wagedom wages wealth whole WORDSWORTH DONISTHORPE workers workman
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Page 113 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 267 - Therefore before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant...
Page 362 - If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stock companies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of the government, if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the...
Page 36 - Nam cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt: delecta ex iis et consociata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest.
Page 125 - What capital does for production, is to afford the shelter, protection, tools and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the labourers during the process.
Page 323 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Page 7 - Certain interests are common to all parts of a nation, such as the enactment of its general laws and the maintenance of its foreign relations. Other interests are peculiar to certain parts of the nation, such, for instance, as the business of the several townships.
Page 122 - Austin avoided this mistake, but perhaps in defining property as " a right over a determinate thing, indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition, and unlimited in point of duration...
Page 142 - I do not class as wealth. He is the purpose for which wealth exists. But his acquired capacities, which exist only as means, and have been called into existence by labour, fall rightly, as it seems to me, \vithiii that designation.