 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 pages
...immediate interest — •who are merely occupied in gaining a fair livelihood ; and with this end in view, without any comprehensive wisdom, or any need of it,...may safely say, no human wisdom directed to that end coiild have conducted so well — the system by which this enormous population is fed from day to day... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - Economics - 1887 - 418 pages
...back his goods in expectation of a rise. Thus he cooperates, unknowingly, in conducting a system which no human wisdom directed to that end could have conducted...which this enormous population is fed from day to day." 244. " The office of the legislator," says Professor Bowen,* "is not, by his own superior wisdom,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1890 - 522 pages
...his goods in expectation of a rise. Thus he cit-operates, unknowingly, in conducting a system which no human wisdom directed to that end could have conducted...which this enormous population is fed from day to day. •' I say, ' no human wisdom ' ; for wisdom there surely is, in this adaptation of the means... | |
 | Fred Manville Taylor - Economics - 1907 - 242 pages
...scarcity which they are ignorantly supposed to produce, nor credit for the important public service which they in reality perform. . They are merely occupied...which this enormous population is fed from day to day. B. *It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - Economics - 1916 - 914 pages
...scarcity which they are ignorantly supposed to produce, nor credit for the important public service which they in reality perform. They are merely occupied...directed to that end could have conducted so well. B. PECUNIARY COMPETITION 96. Economic Activity as a Struggle for Existence* BY ARTHUR FAIRBANKS The... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1851 - 552 pages
...back his goods in expectation of a rise. Thus he cooperates, unknowingly, in conducting a system which no human wisdom directed to that end could have conducted...which this enormous population is fed from day to day. " I say ' no human wisdom ; ' for wisdom there surely is, in this adaptation of the means to the... | |
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And in the pursuit of this object, without any comprehensive wisdom, or any need of it, they cooperate, unknowingly, in conducting a system which, we may safely say, no human wisdom directed to that end could have conducted so well : — the system by... 
