 No one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better. Still, the fact of progress in the last fifty years — progress which is really enormous when a comparison is made with the...  Journal of the Statistical Society of London - Page 612by Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 844 pages
...masses of the people are better, immensely * better, than they were fifty years ago," adds at once, " This is quite consistent with the fact, which we all...desiring something like a revolution for the better."! * Surely a statistician should eschew such adverbs, so sorely reprobated in writers like Mr. George.... | |
 | 1883 - 554 pages
...75, 881,000 Loan ..... 55.000 1,267,000 Sales Net profit .... 2,333,000 165,000 20,901,000 1,617,000 •with the fact that the improvement, measured even...is made with the former state of things — must be recognized. Discontent with the present must not make us forget that things have been so much worse.... | |
 | 1884 - 954 pages
...is quite consistent with the fact, which we all lament, that there is a residuum still nnimproved, but apparently a smaller residuum, both in proportion...is made with the former state of things — must be recognized. Discontent with the present must not make us forget that things have been so much worse.... | |
 | 1884 - 842 pages
...masses of the people are better, immensely * better, than they were fifty years ago," adds at once, " This is quite consistent with the fact, which we all...without desiring something like a revolution for the better."t Facts are stubborn things but they are also very treacherous things, whether they are stated... | |
 | 1906 - 1160 pages
...PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY THE FABIAN SOCIETY. "No one can contemplate the present condition of the massts of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better " (Sir R. GlFFBN, " Euays in Finance," vol. ii., p. 393). TENTH EDITION (REVISED). H!TH THOUSAND. PRICE... | |
 | Robert Giffen - 1885 - 60 pages
...1881. .£428,000 2,333,000 90,000 55,000 165,000 75,881,000 20,901,000 525,000 1,267,000 1,617,000 •with the fact that the improvement, measured even...is made with the former state of things — must be recognized. Discontent with the present must not make us forget that things have been so much worse.... | |
 | John A. Bliss - 1886 - 72 pages
...manipulation of these figures, right or wrongEven the optimistic Mr. Griffin is forced to confess, ' No one can contemplate the condition of the masses...desiring something like a revolution for the better. ' One has but to study the development of New York to realize the truth of the matter. Millionaires... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 994 pages
...education, Class of Incomes. Amount. Proportion. Mln. £ 79'9 Per cnt. iS'o 52'4 1 1'8 172-8 ?gQ 139'0 in greater freedom from crime and pauperism, and in...the former state of things — must be recognised." The total incomes of the Prussian population amounted to 392 millions sterling in 1876, and 444 millions... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1890 - 524 pages
...conservative Mr. R. Giffen, in words which have raised unceasing echoes, " can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better." And certainly if, as is stated, the present Individualist methods of holding capital, purchasing labour,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 368 pages
...of his Essays on Finance. "No one," this eminent statistician judges, "can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people, without desiring something like a revolution for the better." What then is the true remedy ? Socialism professes to offer one. Let us see what it really amounts... | |
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