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... common purposes , of what is meant by wealth . " " It is no part of the design of this treatise to aim at metaphysical nicety of definition . " 1 3. Metaphysical nicety , we assuredly do not need ; but physical nicety , and logical ...
... common purposes , of what is meant by wealth . " " It is no part of the design of this treatise to aim at metaphysical nicety of definition . " 1 3. Metaphysical nicety , we assuredly do not need ; but physical nicety , and logical ...
Page 47
... common labour to procure even ordinary comforts ; he will be ultimately unable to keep either houses in repair , or fields in cultivation ; and forced to content himself with a poor man's portion of cottage and garden , in the midst of ...
... common labour to procure even ordinary comforts ; he will be ultimately unable to keep either houses in repair , or fields in cultivation ; and forced to content himself with a poor man's portion of cottage and garden , in the midst of ...
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... common sense , is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumu- lating much money for ourselves , but also of contriv- ing that our neighbours shall have less . In accurate terms , it is " the art of establishing the maximum inequality ...
... common sense , is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumu- lating much money for ourselves , but also of contriv- ing that our neighbours shall have less . In accurate terms , it is " the art of establishing the maximum inequality ...
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absolute advantage bad workmen Bearing precious seed become body bread capital caput mortuum catallactic commercial common consuming consumption definition of Wealth depends desire difference economists employed equal ESSAY exchangeable value finally force function gain Geryon getting rich give given gold gold sovereign Government hands honour human idea implies industry inequalities interest Ixion J. S. Mill John Ruskin justice kind laws less live luxury manufacture master Master Humphrey's Clock material means mercantile merchant Mill mind modern moral nation nature operation paragraph payment peace perhaps person Ploughshare political economy poor possession possible practical principles produce profit quantity of labour question rate of wages reader respect result Ricardo root sense servant suppose theory things tion Tisiphone trade true ultimately unjust Unto this Last velvet Vulgate word workman