Principles of Social Science, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 |
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... seen from the vast numbers required to do a little work in har- vest the wages of a single day having been required to furnish means of support for many days , if not even weeks . When it was permanent , wages were exceedingly low . In ...
... seen from the vast numbers required to do a little work in har- vest the wages of a single day having been required to furnish means of support for many days , if not even weeks . When it was permanent , wages were exceedingly low . In ...
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... seen from the fact already noticed , that 250 reapers were em- ployed to cut 200 acres of corn . The masters had it in their power to compel the men to engage by the year when they - required it , but they were not bound to 32 CHAPTER ...
... seen from the fact already noticed , that 250 reapers were em- ployed to cut 200 acres of corn . The masters had it in their power to compel the men to engage by the year when they - required it , but they were not bound to 32 CHAPTER ...
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... seen in the facts , that " many became staff - strikers , and wan- dered in parties of two , three , or four from village to village ; " while great numbers " turned out sturdy rogues , and infested the kingdom with frequent robberies ...
... seen in the facts , that " many became staff - strikers , and wan- dered in parties of two , three , or four from village to village ; " while great numbers " turned out sturdy rogues , and infested the kingdom with frequent robberies ...
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... seen in time of plentie as of dearth ; but if I should , I could easily bring my triall . " He further adds , that the artificer and laborer are " driven to content themselves with horsse corne , beanes , peason , otes , tares , and ...
... seen in time of plentie as of dearth ; but if I should , I could easily bring my triall . " He further adds , that the artificer and laborer are " driven to content themselves with horsse corne , beanes , peason , otes , tares , and ...
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... seen in the fact , that the product of agricultural labor has increased sixfold , while the population has only doubled - giving an average for each individual at least thrice greater than before had been obtained . § § 9. Society , or ...
... seen in the fact , that the product of agricultural labor has increased sixfold , while the population has only doubled - giving an average for each individual at least thrice greater than before had been obtained . § § 9. Society , or ...
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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...