Alluring Absurdities: Fallacies of Henry GeorgeAmerican news Company, 1889 - 193 páginas |
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... millions , we are apt to lose sight of nevertheless it is a fact — that in what we know of the world's history decadence of population is as com- mon as increase . Whether the aggregate population of * The increase in New York City from ...
... millions , we are apt to lose sight of nevertheless it is a fact — that in what we know of the world's history decadence of population is as com- mon as increase . Whether the aggregate population of * The increase in New York City from ...
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... million to five million souls . Now we know that neither country has many populous cities , and estimates made by careful observers show that neither country contains a city of one million ! It would be well to remember this fact , when ...
... million to five million souls . Now we know that neither country has many populous cities , and estimates made by careful observers show that neither country contains a city of one million ! It would be well to remember this fact , when ...
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... millions . * * * Now , in the early part of the preceding century , *** the population of Ireland was about two millions . " Here , then , we have Mr. George himself giving the wonderful increase in the population of Ireland ...
... millions . * * * Now , in the early part of the preceding century , *** the population of Ireland was about two millions . " Here , then , we have Mr. George himself giving the wonderful increase in the population of Ireland ...
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... millions of people are maintained , and subsistence increases as population increases . So far as the limit of subsistence is concerned , London may grow to a popula- tion of a hundred millions , or five hundred millions , or a thousand ...
... millions of people are maintained , and subsistence increases as population increases . So far as the limit of subsistence is concerned , London may grow to a popula- tion of a hundred millions , or five hundred millions , or a thousand ...
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... millions , so far as her subsistence is concerned , as the limit of her subsistence is the limit of the globe to furnish food for its inhabitants . His state- ment contains two patent ambiguities . Does the word " limit " refer to the ...
... millions , so far as her subsistence is concerned , as the limit of her subsistence is the limit of the globe to furnish food for its inhabitants . His state- ment contains two patent ambiguities . Does the word " limit " refer to the ...
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Página 119 - 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 48 - A greater number of people cannot, in any given state of civilization, be collectively so well provided for as a smaller The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population.
Página 49 - ... (Principles of Political Economy.) All this I deny. I assert that the very reverse of these propositions is true. I assert that in any given state of civilization a greater number of people can collectively be better provided for than a smaller. I assert that the injustice of society, not the niggardliness of nature, is the cause of the want and misery which the current theory attributes to overpopulation. I assert that the new mouths which an increasing population calls into existence require...
Página 12 - Or if I take a piece of leather and work it up into a pair of shoes, the shoes are my wages — the reward of my exertion. Surely they are not drawn from capital — either my capital or any one...
Página 48 - The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. If all instruments of production were held in joint property by the whole people, and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if in a society thus constituted, industry were as energetic and the produce as ample as at...
Página 7 - The term land necessarily includes, not merely the surface of the earth as distinguished from the water and the air, but the whole material universe outside of man himself, for it is only by having access to land, from which his very body is drawn, that man can come in contact with or use nature. The term land embraces, in short, all natural materials, forces, and opportunities, and, therefore, nothing that is freely supplied by nature can be properly classed as capital.
Página 51 - ... after the clods have rattled upon his coffin lid. He toils in the advance, where it is cold, and there is little cheer from men, and the stones are sharp and the brambles thick. Amid the scoffs of the present and the sneers that stab like knives, he builds for the future; he cuts the trail that progressive humanity may hereafter broaden into a highroad. Into higher, grander spheres desire mounts and beckons, and a star that rises in the east leads him on.
Página 26 - While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Página i - THERE is nothing, (says Plato,) so delightful, as the hearing or the speaking of truth.' For this reason there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.
Página 48 - It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.