| Charles Gide - 1909 - 728 pages
...stagnant sea." He declares himself inclined to believe that the stationary state of capital and wealth " would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition." CHAPTER III — CAPITAL I. The Two Concepts of Capital No economic concept save that of value has given... | |
| Ernest Scott - 1920 - 370 pages
...Stationary State" we meet with this gentle admonition of the "hustling" which often extolled as a virtue: "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each others' heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind,... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...purpose, is whatjt jitters. — Margaret Fuller. • H CONFESS I am not at all charmed with the ideal ot life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that ol struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...purpose, is what it utters. — Margaret Fuller. Page 72 CONFESS I am not at all charmed with the ideal ot life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that ot struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels,... | |
| Ulysses Grant Weatherly - 1926 - 416 pages
...society is ultimately inevitable, nor does he view this outcome with apprehension. For, says he, " I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggle to get on ; that the trampling, elbowing and treading on each others' heels, which form the... | |
| 1940 - 768 pages
...unpleasing and discouraging prospect." But Mill takes the opposite view that such a stationary state "would be on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition." I confess — he writes — I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1940 - 1154 pages
...unpleasing and discouraging prospect." But Mill takes the opposite view that such a stationary state "would be on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition." I confess— he writes— I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the uormal state... | |
| Harold Glenn Moulton, Brookings Institution - 1949 - 420 pages
...unaffected aversion so generally manifested toward it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1956 - 954 pages
...unaffected aversion so generally manifested toward it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that It would be, on the whole,...by those who think that the normal state of human beinga Is that of struggling tt> get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1955 - 1474 pages
...unaffected aversion so generally manifested toward it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...ideal of life held out by those who think that the lonnal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, rushing, elbowing,... | |
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