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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... brought to light many societary phenomena must continue unex- plained . In what direction , however , to seek it , he could not tell . He had already satisfied himself that the theory presented for consideration by Mr. Ricardo , not ...
... brought to light many societary phenomena must continue unex- plained . In what direction , however , to seek it , he could not tell . He had already satisfied himself that the theory presented for consideration by Mr. Ricardo , not ...
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... brought to expression of the belief , that closer examination would * Adam Smith having assumed that the work of cultivation commenced always with the richest soils , Mr. Malthus adopted the idea as basis for a law of population ...
... brought to expression of the belief , that closer examination would * Adam Smith having assumed that the work of cultivation commenced always with the richest soils , Mr. Malthus adopted the idea as basis for a law of population ...
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... brought to light large deposits of that material a single ton of which , dur- ing the period of its combustion , does the work of thousands of men . Having thus obtained control of a vast reservoir of force , he parcels it out among his ...
... brought to light large deposits of that material a single ton of which , dur- ing the period of its combustion , does the work of thousands of men . Having thus obtained control of a vast reservoir of force , he parcels it out among his ...
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... brought to light . Southern men , throughout the war , could , on the contrary , command little beyond the services of negro slaves for whose maintenance there was required a large proportion of the things produced ; and hence the ...
... brought to light . Southern men , throughout the war , could , on the contrary , command little beyond the services of negro slaves for whose maintenance there was required a large proportion of the things produced ; and hence the ...
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... brought its services within reach of the common laborer de- sirous of communicating with his absent wife and children . Other varieties of opinion and expression might here be furnished , all tending to prove the entire accuracy of one ...
... brought its services within reach of the common laborer de- sirous of communicating with his absent wife and children . Other varieties of opinion and expression might here be furnished , all tending to prove the entire accuracy of one ...
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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.