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" It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like. "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 197
by John Stuart Mill - 1900
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...are ultimate laws, which we did not make, which we cannot alter, and to which we can only conform. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the general consent of society. Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by any...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 24; Volume 88

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1848 - 794 pages
...on the same subject in his chapter of Property, Book ii. Chap. 1 :— ' The distribution of wealth is a matter of human institution solely. The things...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the general consent of society. Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by any...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 638 pages
...are ultimate laws, which we did not make, which we cannot alter, and to which we can only conform. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the general consent of society. Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by any...
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Use and abuse; or, Right and wrong, in the relations to labour, of capital ...

William M'Combie - Capital - 1852 - 116 pages
...distribution of wealth," says he,* " is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, men can do with them as they like. They can place them...disposal whatever of them can only take place by the general consent of society. Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by any...
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Social Delusions Concerning Wealth and Want

Richard Jennings - Economics - 1856 - 294 pages
...out of place, it is that with which we are here engaged. It has been truly observed*, with respect to the distribution of wealth, "that is a matter of human...of whomsoever they please, and on whatever terms." In other words, our present principles of Political Economy are responsible for the present distribution...
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The Elements of Social Science ...

Elements, George Drysdale - 1861 - 622 pages
...of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure. . . . It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That...institution solely. The things once there, mankind, collectively or individually, can do with them as they like. . . The distribution of wealth therefore...
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The elements of social science; or, Physical, sexual, and natural religion ...

George Drysdale - Birth control - 1861 - 616 pages
...of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure. . . . It is not so with the distribution of wealth. That...institution solely. The things once there, mankind, collectively or individually, can do with them as they like. . . The distribution of wealth therefore...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 28

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1858 - 576 pages
...by the inherent properties of their own bodilv and mental structure." ' It is not so,' he goes on, ' with the distribution of wealth ; that is a matter...place them at the disposal of whomsoever they please, or on whatever terms. Further in the social state, in every * Principlei of Political Economy, Part...
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Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1870 - 632 pages
...employ those properties more or less successfully, to bring about the events in which we are interested. It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That...they like. They can place them at the disposal of whomsocver they please, and on whatever terms. Further, in the social state, in every state except...
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Political Economy, for Plain People: Applied to the Past and Present State ...

George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1873 - 492 pages
...of external things, and by the inherent properties of their own bodily and mental structure," &c. " It is not so with the distribution of wealth — that...once there, mankind, individually or collectively, may do with them as they like." . . . "The distribution of wealth therefore depends on the laws 350...
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