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" I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type... "
The Economics of Population - Page 102
by Julian L. Simon - 225 pages
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ...

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 1076 pages
...necessary stage in the progres '• civilization, and those European nations which have hitherto off so fortunate as to be preserved from it, may have it yet to uncWi It is an incident of growth, not a mark of decline, for '* i3 l necessarily destructive of the...
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Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, Volume 44

Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1913 - 396 pages
...that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." He looked forward, indeed, confidently to what lie called the "stationary state," when man would call...
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Men and Thought in Modern History

Ernest Scott - 1920 - 370 pages
...that the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each others' heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." Again, in a discussion on "Limits of the Province of Government," we find this sensitive plea: "To...
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The Harvest of Ruskin

John William Graham - 1920 - 280 pages
...other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. The northern and middle states of America are a specimen of this stage of civilization in very favourable...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...other's heels, which form the existing type of human life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. — JS Mill. ."<•• .i»*r«TTHOUT free speech no search for \\) truth is possible; without free...
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Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring ...

Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...other's heels, which form the existing type of human life, are the most desirable lot of humankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. — JS Mill. free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of truth...
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Carlyle and Mill: Mystic and Utilitarian, Volume 38

Emery Edward Neff - 1924 - 354 pages
...that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." The general tendency of society to make, like McCulloch, "high profits" the "test of prosperity" had...
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Carlyle and Mill: An Introduction to Victorian Thought

Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 pages
...that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." The general tendency of society, to make, like McCulloch, " high profits " the " test of prosperity...
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Social Progress: Studies in the Dynamics of Change

Ulysses Grant Weatherly - 1926 - 416 pages
...to get on ; that the trampling, elbowing and treading on each others' heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of...symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." sio Mill's complacent view has not been generally shared by economists and statesmen as they have contemplated...
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Carlyle and Mill: An Introduction to Victorian Thought

Emery Edward Neff - 1926 - 458 pages
...other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kihd, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress." The general tendency of society, to make, like McCulloch, " high profits " the " test of prosperity...
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