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7 yet it must occasionally happen that two or more individuals will feel a desire to occupy the same place , or satisfy their appetites with the same morsel of food . In all such cases one individual must give way to the other .
7 yet it must occasionally happen that two or more individuals will feel a desire to occupy the same place , or satisfy their appetites with the same morsel of food . In all such cases one individual must give way to the other .
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Now , were it demonstrable beyond the possibility of dispute , that the permanent interests of a community ( the only end and object of any government , and the measure of the rights of the individuals composing it ) would be always ...
Now , were it demonstrable beyond the possibility of dispute , that the permanent interests of a community ( the only end and object of any government , and the measure of the rights of the individuals composing it ) would be always ...
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If , however , we come to the conclusion , that an individual who has within his easy reach the means of comfortable subsistence enjoys as fair a chance of happiness as those who occupy stations in the common opinion of the world more ...
If , however , we come to the conclusion , that an individual who has within his easy reach the means of comfortable subsistence enjoys as fair a chance of happiness as those who occupy stations in the common opinion of the world more ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE On the Coincidence of | 1 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY DEDUCED | 40 |
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| Title | Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain Reprints of economic classics |
| Author | George Poulett Scrope |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | A. M. Kelley, 1969 |
| ISBN | 067800563X, 9780678005637 |
| Length | 457 pages |
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