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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Page viii
... things is necessary , and , if so , why ? If not , then how it may be ameliorated ? ' For to tolerate it any longer than appears to them unavoidable , assuredly they will not submit . Hence it is that the subjects we have mentioned ...
... things is necessary , and , if so , why ? If not , then how it may be ameliorated ? ' For to tolerate it any longer than appears to them unavoidable , assuredly they will not submit . Hence it is that the subjects we have mentioned ...
Page xiii
... thing still disturbs these elements of general improvement , neutralizes their beneficial qua- lities , and hinders them from combining , as might be expected , to work out a general and uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true.
... thing still disturbs these elements of general improvement , neutralizes their beneficial qua- lities , and hinders them from combining , as might be expected , to work out a general and uniform advance in happiness . Wealth , it is true.
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... things . It can only be the result of culpable mismanage- ment , mismanagement having its root either in the fraud or the ignorance of those who model the institutions , and administer the resources of na- tions . Ignorance , rather ...
... things . It can only be the result of culpable mismanage- ment , mismanagement having its root either in the fraud or the ignorance of those who model the institutions , and administer the resources of na- tions . Ignorance , rather ...
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... things for the best , it is evidently false if applied to individual actions ; as , for example , cruelty , theft , and murder . Pro- vidence , in arranging things on the whole for the best , ' has left to man the liberty of acting on ...
... things for the best , it is evidently false if applied to individual actions ; as , for example , cruelty , theft , and murder . Pro- vidence , in arranging things on the whole for the best , ' has left to man the liberty of acting on ...
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... things , be limited in its exercise . There is , for example , a physical impossibility that two individuals should stand or lie in the same place , or eat the same fruit or piece of flesh . And * Man has a law within himself to himself ...
... things , be limited in its exercise . There is , for example , a physical impossibility that two individuals should stand or lie in the same place , or eat the same fruit or piece of flesh . And * Man has a law within himself to himself ...
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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