The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral ScienceH. C. Baird, 1872 - 433 pages |
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... - Occupation of the Earth C. - Statistical Facts 379 382 • 392 395 404 406 ( v ) D. - The Opium Trade E. Effects of an Exclusive Agriculture . F. - The Proletariat • PREFACE . DESIRING FULLY to understand and properly to appre-
... - Occupation of the Earth C. - Statistical Facts 379 382 • 392 395 404 406 ( v ) D. - The Opium Trade E. Effects of an Exclusive Agriculture . F. - The Proletariat • PREFACE . DESIRING FULLY to understand and properly to appre-
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... agricultural labor , when population and wealth increase , is a constantly diminishing one ( see post pp . 17 , 18 ) ; than which no assertion could by any possibility have less of even the appearance of support from facts . That the ...
... agricultural labor , when population and wealth increase , is a constantly diminishing one ( see post pp . 17 , 18 ) ; than which no assertion could by any possibility have less of even the appearance of support from facts . That the ...
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... agriculture and all other of the pur- suits of man having been there exhibited in the fact , that the farmer was always employed in making a machine whose powers increased from year to year ; whereas , the shipmaster , and the wagoner ...
... agriculture and all other of the pur- suits of man having been there exhibited in the fact , that the farmer was always employed in making a machine whose powers increased from year to year ; whereas , the shipmaster , and the wagoner ...
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... agricultural laborer should be underpaid , underfed , miserably housed , and so immovable as to secure to the tenant farmer a constant supply of cheap labor . " - British Quarterly Review , July , 1872 ; Article : " Agricultural Labor's ...
... agricultural laborer should be underpaid , underfed , miserably housed , and so immovable as to secure to the tenant farmer a constant supply of cheap labor . " - British Quarterly Review , July , 1872 ; Article : " Agricultural Labor's ...
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... agricultural labor had become so much more productive that half a dozen persons did the work that before had required hundreds ; that famines , such as had oc- curred even so late as the sixteenth century , had wholly disappeared ; that ...
... agricultural labor had become so much more productive that half a dozen persons did the work that before had required hundreds ; that famines , such as had oc- curred even so late as the sixteenth century , had wholly disappeared ; that ...
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Page 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 48 - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of Philosophia prima...
Page xx - With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
Page 437 - AMOROUX, AND JOHNSON.— The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing Companion ? Forming a Complete Course of Mechanical Engineering and Architectural Drawing. From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Prof, of Design in the Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris,, and MM. Armengaud the younger, and Amoroux, Civil Engineers.
Page 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.