 | Ross Lee Finney - Middle class - 1922 - 310 pages
...prosperity, was Malthus' "preventive check." "The friends of humanity cannot but wish," wrote Ricardo, "that in all countries the labouring classes should...all legal means in their exertions to procure them. ... In those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - Social problems - 1922 - 304 pages
...prosperity, was Malthus' "preventive check." "The friends of humanity cannot but wish," wrote Ricardo, "that in all countries the labouring classes should...all legal means in their exertions to procure them. ... In those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are contented with the... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - Economics - 1923 - 352 pages
...the labourers had it in their power, by raising the standard of comfort, to raise the minimum rate. ' The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...them. There cannot be a better security against a redundant population. In those countries where the labouring classes have the fewest wants, and are... | |
 | Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 pages
...possessions did not mean increase of the national well-being. "The friends of humanity," he wrote, "cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring...better security against a super-abundant population." For Malthus, Political Economy was not an exact science like mathematics, but rather resembled "the... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Economics - 1926 - 296 pages
...adhesion to the Benthamite principle of " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ", writes that : " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...all legal means in their exertions to procure them ". McCulloch, one of the hardest theorists, has melting moments, when he declares that " The best interests... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Economics - 1926 - 298 pages
...adhesion to the Benthamite principle of " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ", writes that : " The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all...all legal means in their exertions to procure them ". McCulloch, one of the hardest theorists, has melting moments, when he declares that " The best interests... | |
 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 954 pages
...countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people." And again he remarks, " Tho friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries...all legal means in their exertions to procure them." The effects of the standard of comfort on the movement of population are of course not immediate ;... | |
 | Economics - 1926 - 720 pages
...justice, at Mr. Hobson's hands. It is not surprising to find him quoting Ricardo's famous aspiration, " that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments," and the same author's forecast of a decline in the level of profits, only to explain that such " obiter... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - Education - 1928 - 592 pages
...vaguely, that a rising standard tends to procure the wherewithal for its own satisfaction. He wrote: "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring class should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - Agriculture - 1958 - 666 pages
...out long before Keynes that "The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments,...them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundent population. In those countries where the laboring classes have the fewest wants and are... | |
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The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the labouring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security... 
