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But though perfectly true in the sense that Providence has , on the whole , ordered all things for the best , it is evidently false if applied to individual actions ; as , for example , cruelty , theft , and murder .
But though perfectly true in the sense that Providence has , on the whole , ordered all things for the best , it is evidently false if applied to individual actions ; as , for example , cruelty , theft , and murder .
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Were the owners of capital to consume annually a portion of their stock , while the labourers consumed the whole of their wages , - rents , capital would decrease . The history of nations. and the landlords the whole of their amass .
Were the owners of capital to consume annually a portion of their stock , while the labourers consumed the whole of their wages , - rents , capital would decrease . The history of nations. and the landlords the whole of their amass .
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... since the Irish Channel has been bridged over by steamboats , the two islands are virtually united , and the absence of a poor - law in the one affects the condition of the whole labouring class in the other , disturbs the natural ...
... since the Irish Channel has been bridged over by steamboats , the two islands are virtually united , and the absence of a poor - law in the one affects the condition of the whole labouring class in the other , disturbs the natural ...
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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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