 | William Cunningham - Free trade - 1905 - 232 pages
...When he cannot 1 Dugald Stewart, Life of Adam Smith in Works, vol. xp 68. 2 Wealth of Nations, p. 280. establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear1. Adam Smith was clear that by the comparison of other polities the condition of a country might... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 328 pages
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." l It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the system... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - Great Britain - 1909 - 324 pages
...well as he can his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people. . . . Like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear."1 It may be noted in passing that Adam Smith used precisely the same expression regarding the... | |
 | Economics - 1910 - 822 pages
...when he cannot establish the best system, will try to establish the best the people can bear, and when he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong." We must in the life of nations allow time for growth and time for decay, and in the life of nations... | |
 | John Taylor Peddie - Economics - 1918 - 256 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." 1 And the following passage by Hume bears very much on the same point : — " In all cases it must... | |
 | Gerhard Leibholz - Law - 1976 - 718 pages
...inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavor to establish the best that the people can bear.« Smith continues, denouncing planning and... | |
 | T. W. Hutchison - Business & Economics - 1978 - 376 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear [1797, vol. n, p. 109]." It is here that Smith's methodological approach implies an attitude to policy... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - History - 1989 - 254 pages
...inconveniences which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong. (TMS, vi, ii, 2, § 16) This criticism of a morally utopian approach to politics and the suggestion... | |
 | Reinhard Brandt - Philosophy - 1982 - 476 pages
...well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people . . . [H]e will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear." (ibid.) Fifthly and finally, Smith was a realist and his realism led him to prefer down-to-earth explanations... | |
 | Michael J. Lacey, Mary O. Furner - History - 1993 - 460 pages
...regulations which the people are averse to submit to. When he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like...endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 16 The two stereotypes presented here could stand for Bentham and Smith, respectively, although the... | |
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When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear. 
