Principles of Political Economy: Deduced from the Natural Laws of Social Welfare and Applied to the Present State of Britain |
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... numbers and resources of Man.- Hunting State . - Pastoral State . - Agricultural State . -Increased facilities for procuring Subsistence con- sequent on every Improvement . - Culture of inferior Soils indicative of increased , not of ...
... numbers and resources of Man.- Hunting State . - Pastoral State . - Agricultural State . -Increased facilities for procuring Subsistence con- sequent on every Improvement . - Culture of inferior Soils indicative of increased , not of ...
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... numbers of men have been for many ages past continually on the increase , and lead us to believe that his race was at some former period few in number , confined within very narrow geographical limits , and endowed with a very scanty ...
... numbers of men have been for many ages past continually on the increase , and lead us to believe that his race was at some former period few in number , confined within very narrow geographical limits , and endowed with a very scanty ...
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... 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 the horrors of want ...
... 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 the horrors of want ...
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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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