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None can doubt the benevolent intentions of the gentleman I have named , and of the greater number of his followers . ... all historical records unite in placing before us the fact that the numbers of men have been for many ages past ...
None can doubt the benevolent intentions of the gentleman I have named , and of the greater number of his followers . ... all historical records unite in placing before us the fact that the numbers of men have been for many ages past ...
Page 261
But with the exception of the last , which alone will not support life , these spontaneous gifts of nature are very limited ; and as the numbers of a society increased , there must have been felt a very inconvenient scarcity of food ...
But with the exception of the last , which alone will not support life , these spontaneous gifts of nature are very limited ; and as the numbers of a society increased , there must have been felt a very inconvenient scarcity of food ...
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But we differ wholly from Mr. Malthus , Dr. Chalmers , and their disciples , as to the direction which a wise , prudential foresight ought to take . They would direct it almost exclusively to a limitation of the number of consumers : we ...
But we differ wholly from Mr. Malthus , Dr. Chalmers , and their disciples , as to the direction which a wise , prudential foresight ought to take . They would direct it almost exclusively to a limitation of the number of consumers : we ...
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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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