 | Literature, Modern - 1904 - 738 pages
...extreme poveity is hedged about. " The study of the causes of poverty," as Prof. Marshall well puts it, " is the study of the causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." If this be admitted—and who can doubt its truth ?— surely the removal of poverty should engross... | |
 | American periodicals - 1898 - 864 pages
...live on from inferior to superior." " The study of the causes of poverty," says Professor Marshall, " is the study of the causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." Notwithstanding that many of the poor lead less incomplete lives than many who have wealth, " for all... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Economic factors - 1892 - 496 pages
...of making the best of their mental faculties. Although then some of the evils which commonly go with poverty are not its necessary consequences ; yet,...Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves is poverty nethemselves in olden time. The dignity... | |
 | George Davis Herron - Christian sociology - 1899 - 330 pages
...the one, or acquire the other." "The study of the causes of poverty," says Professor Marshall, ! " is the study of the causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." Notwithstanding that many of the poor lead less incomplete lives than many who have wealth, " for all... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - Economics - 1903 - 574 pages
...of making the best of their mental faculties. Although then some of the evils which commonly go with poverty are not its necessary consequences ; yet,...the causes of poverty is the study of the .causes uf the degradation of a large part of mankind. § 2. Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance... | |
 | Norman Angell - International law - 1914 - 298 pages
...quiet, and very little of the unity, of family life ; and religion often fails to reach them. . . . The study of the causes of poverty is the study of the causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind."1 For, of course, the economic interests of a people mean, not merely food and clothing and... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - Christian sociology - 1915 - 160 pages
...living. II THE CAUSES OF POVERTY CHAPTER II THE CAUSES OF POVERTY A GREAT economic writer has said, "The study of the causes of poverty is the study of the degradation of a large part of mankind. " 1 It is this fact that makes the existence of poverty on... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 296 pages
...having any share or part in that life May we not outgrow the belief that poverty is necessary? .... Broadly speaking, 'the destruction of the poor is...causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." It can be said without contradiction, that the note of pleasure now sounded by our own Professor Davenport,... | |
 | 1924 - 702 pages
...we mean by " higher." The economist can claim, and this claim is sufficient for his purposes, that " the study of the causes of poverty is the study of...causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." 1 Correspondingly, the possibility of progress " depends in a great measure upon facts and inferences,... | |
 | Economics - 1924 - 812 pages
...we mean by " higher." The economist can claim, and this claim is sufficient for his purposes, that " the study of the causes of poverty is the study of...causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind." 1 Correspondingly, the possibility of progress " depends in a great measure upon facts and inferences,... | |
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... the study of the causes of poverty is the study of the causes of the degradation of a large part of mankind. 
