Principles of political economy, deduced from the natural laws of social welfare, and applied to the present state of BritainLongman, 1833 - 457 pages |
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... exclusive possessors of knowledge . The people now read ; the people reason ; the people think for themselves . What do they read ? What are their thoughts ? From what principles do they reason ? These are ques- tions of deep import ...
... exclusive possessors of knowledge . The people now read ; the people reason ; the people think for themselves . What do they read ? What are their thoughts ? From what principles do they reason ? These are ques- tions of deep import ...
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... exclusively from a social contract entered into by all parties concerned , ' though more than once exploded , has been revived in the present day . Such a contract is avowedly a fiction ; for when or where did the members of any ...
... exclusively from a social contract entered into by all parties concerned , ' though more than once exploded , has been revived in the present day . Such a contract is avowedly a fiction ; for when or where did the members of any ...
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... exclusive property in them . One simple rule of this sort appears to have been universally adopted by every fraction of the human family , in every quarter of the globe , and from the first traces we possess of their history . And it is ...
... exclusive property in them . One simple rule of this sort appears to have been universally adopted by every fraction of the human family , in every quarter of the globe , and from the first traces we possess of their history . And it is ...
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... exclusively entrusted to the adult males , the ques- tion is then confessedly but one of degree - between one kind of limitation and another - and to be argued upon the same principle , and with reference to no other abstract right than ...
... exclusively entrusted to the adult males , the ques- tion is then confessedly but one of degree - between one kind of limitation and another - and to be argued upon the same principle , and with reference to no other abstract right than ...
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... exclusive interpretation . The science of medicine is not the less esteemed because occasionally disgraced by the St. John Longs and Van Butchells . Man- kind is not the less indebted to chemistry because its early history was stained ...
... exclusive interpretation . The science of medicine is not the less esteemed because occasionally disgraced by the St. John Longs and Van Butchells . Man- kind is not the less indebted to chemistry because its early history was stained ...
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accumulated Adam Smith advantages afford agriculture amount arts benefit capital circulating circumstances comforts commerce commodities condition consequently consumed continually corn CORN-LAWS cost cultivation demand division of labour duce duction duties effect employed employment enjoyment equally evils exchange exclusive exertions existence expense extent favourable fertility foreign greater happiness human improvement increase individual industry injury interest invested Ireland labouring class land landlord less likewise limited machinery manufactures ment MIXED MATHEMATICS mode monopoly moral natural justice natural laws natural right necessary numbers object obtain occupation owner parishes parties perhaps persons Political Economy poor poor-law poor-rate population portion possession present principle procure production profit proportion proportionate purchase quantity raw produce rent skill society soil sumers supply surplus surplus labour taxation things tion tithe tivation trade value of money villeins wages wealth