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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... seek it , he could not tell . He had already satisfied himself that the theory presented for consideration by Mr. Ricardo , not being universally true , had no claim to be so considered ; but , it was not until ten years later he was ...
... seek it , he could not tell . He had already satisfied himself that the theory presented for consideration by Mr. Ricardo , not being universally true , had no claim to be so considered ; but , it was not until ten years later he was ...
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... Seeking now to understand the cause of a state of things so sad and so destructive , the inquirer looks naturally for information to the works of leaders of opinion in that country which claims to follow in the footsteps of Adam Smith ...
... Seeking now to understand the cause of a state of things so sad and so destructive , the inquirer looks naturally for information to the works of leaders of opinion in that country which claims to follow in the footsteps of Adam Smith ...
Page xxi
... compre- hended by even their very teachers , that these latter fail totally when seeking to make them comprehensible by those who would be taught . * See p . 47 , post . NOTE . As this sheet is passing through the press PREFACE . xxi.
... compre- hended by even their very teachers , that these latter fail totally when seeking to make them comprehensible by those who would be taught . * See p . 47 , post . NOTE . As this sheet is passing through the press PREFACE . xxi.
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... seek after its cause . ) In this , science is fully justified , alike by the entire independence of its objects , and by the historical fact that it has been continually ham- pered and impeded in its search for the truth as xxii PREFACE .
... seek after its cause . ) In this , science is fully justified , alike by the entire independence of its objects , and by the historical fact that it has been continually ham- pered and impeded in its search for the truth as xxii PREFACE .
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... seek their old friend Crusoe , standing alone on his desert island , asking his views on this important question . Doing this , they will learn that so high had been the value attached by him to the idea of moving on the A SCIENCE BASED ...
... seek their old friend Crusoe , standing alone on his desert island , asking his views on this important question . Doing this , they will learn that so high had been the value attached by him to the idea of moving on the A SCIENCE BASED ...
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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.
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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.