Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1894 - 591 páginas |
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... tion , the same system still essentially prevailed ) for serfs to acquire property ; and in fact , their accumulations are the slowly , but steadily ; the arts of life made constant progress ; plunder ceased to be the principal source ...
... tion , the same system still essentially prevailed ) for serfs to acquire property ; and in fact , their accumulations are the slowly , but steadily ; the arts of life made constant progress ; plunder ceased to be the principal source ...
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... tion of cattle : by degrees the powers of inanimate nature are made to aid in this too , as by making the wind , or water , things already in motion , com- municate a part of their motion to the wheels , which before that invention were ...
... tion of cattle : by degrees the powers of inanimate nature are made to aid in this too , as by making the wind , or water , things already in motion , com- municate a part of their motion to the wheels , which before that invention were ...
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... tion , land at least of any tolerable fertility , must be ranked among agents limited in quantity . Water , for ordi- nary purposes , on the banks of rivers or lakes , may be regarded as of un- limited abundance ; but if required for ...
... tion , land at least of any tolerable fertility , must be ranked among agents limited in quantity . Water , for ordi- nary purposes , on the banks of rivers or lakes , may be regarded as of un- limited abundance ; but if required for ...
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... tion which can only be used once , being destroyed ( at least as an instrument for the purpose in hand ) by a single employment . Thus fuel , once burnt , cannot be again used as fuel ; what can be so used is only any portion which has ...
... tion which can only be used once , being destroyed ( at least as an instrument for the purpose in hand ) by a single employment . Thus fuel , once burnt , cannot be again used as fuel ; what can be so used is only any portion which has ...
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... tion of industry . Such is the object of all buildings for industrial purposes ; all manufactories , warehouses , docks , granaries , barns , farm - buildings de- voted to cattle , or to the operations of agricultural labour . I exclude ...
... tion of industry . Such is the object of all buildings for industrial purposes ; all manufactories , warehouses , docks , granaries , barns , farm - buildings de- voted to cattle , or to the operations of agricultural labour . I exclude ...
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Página 483 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Página 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Página 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Página 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Página 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.