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... fall far short of the accuracy that cha- racterizes the laws of the physical sciences . This consideration should have prevented the attempts which have been made by many writers on Poli- tical Economy to attribute the force of mathema ...
... fall far short of the accuracy that cha- racterizes the laws of the physical sciences . This consideration should have prevented the attempts which have been made by many writers on Poli- tical Economy to attribute the force of mathema ...
Page 44
... fall within the sphere of their se- veral influences . His peculiar object is to ascer- tain the means of augmenting the happiness of mankind , in as far as it is affected by the abun- dance or distribution of those more tangible and ...
... fall within the sphere of their se- veral influences . His peculiar object is to ascer- tain the means of augmenting the happiness of mankind , in as far as it is affected by the abun- dance or distribution of those more tangible and ...
Page 49
... falls to his lot . In truth , whatever inconveniences do attend particular employments are necessarily compensated by the proportionately increased remuneration , which , under a system of free labour , is sure to be awarded to them ...
... falls to his lot . In truth , whatever inconveniences do attend particular employments are necessarily compensated by the proportionately increased remuneration , which , under a system of free labour , is sure to be awarded to them ...
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... falls to be divided among the members of a community , is an in- crease to their general means of happiness , pro- portionate , cæteris paribus , to the equality with which they are distributed . But these conditions must be fulfilled ...
... falls to be divided among the members of a community , is an in- crease to their general means of happiness , pro- portionate , cæteris paribus , to the equality with which they are distributed . But these conditions must be fulfilled ...
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... falling off from this condition will proportionably lessen the individual chance of enjoyment . Consequently , the means of enjoyment possessed by any society must be judged of principally by the number of those who possess the means of ...
... falling off from this condition will proportionably lessen the individual chance of enjoyment . Consequently , the means of enjoyment possessed by any society must be judged of principally by the number of those who possess the means of ...
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Page 262 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 174 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 18 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 30 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him ; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Page 19 - The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 75 - In watchmaking, as Mr. Babbage observes, " it was stated in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, that there are a hundred and two distinct branches of this art, to each of which a boy may be put apprentice ; and that he only learns his master's department, and is unable, after his apprenticeship has expired, without subsequent instruction, to work at any other branch. The watch-finisher, whose business...
Page 30 - Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title ; or at least we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built.
Page 143 - ... any sort of action or operation, whether performed by man, the lower animals, machinery, or natural agents, that tends to bring about a desirable result!
Page 19 - For this labour being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
Page 146 - The profit obtained by the owner of capital from its productive employment, whether in his own hands or those of another party, to whom it is lent, is to be viewed in the light of a compensation to him for abstaining for a time from the consumption of that portion of his property on his personal gratification...