 It is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it : and like many other kinds of machinery, it only exerts a distinct and independent influence of its own when it gets out of order.  OUTLINE OF LECTURES UPON POLITICAL ECONOMY - Page 31by HENRY CARTER ADAMS - 1881 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 602 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...character of a contrivance for sparing time and labor. It is a machinery for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is a machinery for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1857 - 610 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 628 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - Economics - 1864 - 106 pages
...difference whether he distributes it to them direct, or sells it for them and gives them the price. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is merely a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly... | |
 | Anthony Musgrave - Economics - 1875 - 258 pages
...intellectual power and logical perception of Mr. Mill, should not have known, when he stated that there cannot be intrinsically a more insignificant thing in the economy of society than money — when he called it a machine, a medium, or oil for machinery — that he had really misconceived... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - Money - 1877 - 578 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...character of a contrivance for sparing time and labor. It is a machinery for doing quickly and commodiously what' would be done, though less quickly and commodiously,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 668 pages
...first except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...character of a contrivance for sparing time and labor. It is a machine for doing, quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously,... | |
 | Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 674 pages
...first except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...character of a contrivance for sparing time and labor. It is a machine fordoing, quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1881 - 616 pages
...first, except their produce, it is that and nothing else which supplies all incomes furnished by them. There cannot, in short, be intrinsically a more insignificant...the character of a contrivance for sparing time and labour. It is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously, what would be done, though less quickly... | |
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