Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... limited , the will of the individuals composing it must , by the very nature of things , be limited in its exercise . There is , for example , a physical impossibility that two individuals should stand or lie in the same place , or eat ...
... limited , the will of the individuals composing it must , by the very nature of things , be limited in its exercise . There is , for example , a physical impossibility that two individuals should stand or lie in the same place , or eat ...
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... limited to the bare necessaries of life for that number of individuals . All the various productions , which art and ingenuity now supply to gratify the infinite wants and caprices of mankind , would glut the market without a purchaser ...
... limited to the bare necessaries of life for that number of individuals . All the various productions , which art and ingenuity now supply to gratify the infinite wants and caprices of mankind , would glut the market without a purchaser ...
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... limited ; and as the numbers of a society increased , there must have been felt a very inconvenient scarcity of food , such as we know to be habitually experienced by the savage tribes of America or Southern Africa . In this condition ...
... limited ; and as the numbers of a society increased , there must have been felt a very inconvenient scarcity of food , such as we know to be habitually experienced by the savage tribes of America or Southern Africa . In this condition ...
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PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON the Coincidence of | 1 |
Primary Natural Rights1 To Personal | 13 |
Duty of a Government the securing | 28 |
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