Principles of Social Science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 |
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... hands of man . His canoe enabled him to command another important force , the sup- porting power of water ; to which , when he had made a sail , he added a third , the propelling power of wind each addition to his power increasing his ...
... hands of man . His canoe enabled him to command another important force , the sup- porting power of water ; to which , when he had made a sail , he added a third , the propelling power of wind each addition to his power increasing his ...
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... hand , " and the more perfect will be his power to determine how much cloth or iron he will consent to furnish in exchange for any given quantity of corn , cotton , or sugar . The more effectually the ship - owner can prevent inter ...
... hand , " and the more perfect will be his power to determine how much cloth or iron he will consent to furnish in exchange for any given quantity of corn , cotton , or sugar . The more effectually the ship - owner can prevent inter ...
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... hands of the few who were rich , at the cost of the many who were otherwise ; until , at the close of the last Punic war , the flower of the Latin race seems entirely to have disappeared their places having become occupied by slaves ...
... hands of the few who were rich , at the cost of the many who were otherwise ; until , at the close of the last Punic war , the flower of the Latin race seems entirely to have disappeared their places having become occupied by slaves ...
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... hand was against every man , while every man's hand was against them . At home , her history is a record of almost un- ceasing civil war ; while abroad she has been the constant distur- ber of the public peace . Nowhere in Europe has ...
... hand was against every man , while every man's hand was against them . At home , her history is a record of almost un- ceasing civil war ; while abroad she has been the constant distur- ber of the public peace . Nowhere in Europe has ...
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... hand ; thirty - seven whipped ; one hundred and eighty - three discharged ; " and that , " notwith- standing these great ... hands not required in agriculture . " Such was the real cause of difficulty . England still OF PRODUCTION AND ...
... hand ; thirty - seven whipped ; one hundred and eighty - three discharged ; " and that , " notwith- standing these great ... hands not required in agriculture . " Such was the real cause of difficulty . England still OF PRODUCTION AND ...
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accumulation Adam Smith agriculture amount become Belgium capital cent century cloth combination command commerce competition condition consequence constant increase consumer consumption cotton cultivation decline demand diminishing diminution direction earth effect effort employment enabled England Europe exhibited existence fact faculties farmer finished commodities fixed property force France freedom Germany gradually greater growing growth of wealth human improvement India indirect taxation individual Ireland J. S. MILL Jamaica land and labor latter less look Malthus manufactures ment movable nations nature nature's services necessity obtain owner perfect poor poorer population portion Portugal potential energy power of association profits proportion borne proprietors purchase quantity rate of profit ratio raw materials reader rent result Ricardo rude products Russia slave slavery societary society steadily tax of transportation taxation tendency tends tion trade Turkey wages Wealth of Nations
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Page 185 - The school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent.
Page 185 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 468 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion, which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Page 261 - It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
Page 169 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 428 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the...
Page 428 - The superiority of one country over another in a branch of production, often arises only from having begun it sooner. There may be no inherent advantage on one part, or disadvantage on the other, but only a present superiority of acquired skill and experience. A country which has this skill and experience yet to acquire, may in other respects be better adapted to the production than those which were earlier in the field...
Page 422 - Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for ; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what 'comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs.
Page 68 - No regulation of commerce can increase the quantity of industry in any society beyond what its capital can maintain. It can only divert a part of it into a direction into which it might not otherwise have gone; and it is by no means certain that this artificial direction is likely to be more advantageous to the society than that into which it would have gone of its own accord.
Page 68 - ... the general industry of the society, or to give it the most advantageous direction, is not, perhaps, altogether so evident. The general industry of the society never can exceed what the capital of the society can employ. As the number of workmen that can be kept in employment by any particular person must bear a certain proportion to his capital, so the number of those that can be continually employed by all the members of a great society must bear a certain proportion to the whole capital of...