 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 1848 - 622 pages
...power which has been made so largely available for the attainment of human purposes. Labour, then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion; the properties of matter, the laws of nature, do the rest. The skill and ingenuity of human beings... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 520 pages
...is the power of moving heavy bodies from one place to another. Mr. Stuart Mill tells us that labour in the physical world is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; and assuredly, if tins be the principle of physical labour, the docks exhibit the perfection of human... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 480 pages
...is the power of moving heavy bodies from one place to another. Mr. Stuart Mill tells us that labour in the physical world is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; and assuredly, if this be the principle of physical labour, the docks exhibit the perfection of human... | |
 | Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Economics - 1876 - 286 pages
...definition is so comprehensive as to include all the varied operations of industry. " Labour then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; the properties of matter, the laws of nature, do the rest." Take as an example the labour which is... | |
 | Henry Carter Adams - Economics - 1881 - 90 pages
...succeeds in its purpose. Fawcett (a) BI, ch. III. Eoscher, §§ 38-42. Gamier, ch. III. Mill, BI, ch. II. Shadwell, BI ch. II. Chapin-Wayland, ch. IV. Upon...and the safety with which one may hope to enjoy the ^uit of his labor ; while the effectiveness of these inducements depends upon race, habit, and climate.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...power which has been made so largely available for the attainment of human purposes.* Labour, then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; the properties of matter, the laws of nature, do the rest. The skill and ingenuity of human beings... | |
 | Henry Carter Adams - Economics - 1886 - 94 pages
...fails of success. Labor which produces an absolute excess of good things, above the wants of society. Labor is either mental or physical; the tendency being,...employed in putting objects in motion." — Mill. § 13. The strength of the inducement leading to labor varies with the degree of hope which men entertain... | |
 | John Luther Ringwalt - Transportation - 1888 - 532 pages
...in defining production, states that its requisites are "labor and appropriate natural objects;" that labor in the physical world "is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion; the properties of matter, the laws of nature do the rest. . . . This one operation of putting things... | |
 | John Borden - Money - 1890 - 154 pages
...moving, will check or modify or altogether arrest its motion, and he can do no more." * * * "Labor, then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion; the properties of matter, the laws of nature do the rest," (Mill Book ], Chap. 1). Labor has the same... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1892 - 628 pages
...power which has been made so largely available for the attainment of human purposes.* Labour, then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; the properties of matter, the laws of nature, do the rest. The skill and ingenuity of human beings... | |
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Labour, then, in the physical world, is always and solely employed in putting objects in motion ; the properties of matter, the laws of nature, do the rest. 
