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... considering man solely as a money - making and pleasure - loving being . But great practical difficulties have arisen from confounding the " economic man " with the actual man . Not a little of the trouble now existing in the in ...
... considering man solely as a money - making and pleasure - loving being . But great practical difficulties have arisen from confounding the " economic man " with the actual man . Not a little of the trouble now existing in the in ...
Page 43
... consider the simpler case of an in- dividual employer . A cotton manufacturer goes to New York and purchases a hundred bales of cotton for his mill . Of course , he buys them in the cheapest market . This is the law of trade . It is ...
... consider the simpler case of an in- dividual employer . A cotton manufacturer goes to New York and purchases a hundred bales of cotton for his mill . Of course , he buys them in the cheapest market . This is the law of trade . It is ...
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... , but it does not seem to include and ex- plain the facts of life . It might afford a curious and interesting study , if one were to consider human beings simply as clothes - wearing ani- mals , 44 APPLIED CHRISTIANITY .
... , but it does not seem to include and ex- plain the facts of life . It might afford a curious and interesting study , if one were to consider human beings simply as clothes - wearing ani- mals , 44 APPLIED CHRISTIANITY .
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... consider and treat this " labor as if it were something besides mer- chandise . Sentiments , motives , principles of action must come into play in dealing with " labor " that find no place in the purchase of cotton or of corn , or else ...
... consider and treat this " labor as if it were something besides mer- chandise . Sentiments , motives , principles of action must come into play in dealing with " labor " that find no place in the purchase of cotton or of corn , or else ...
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... consider the effect of the employment which he furnishes , and of the reward which he gives for this service ; upon the lives of those whom he employs . The health , the morality , the happiness of the people whom he employs , are ...
... consider the effect of the employment which he furnishes , and of the reward which he gives for this service ; upon the lives of those whom he employs . The health , the morality , the happiness of the people whom he employs , are ...
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Page 70 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 315 - ... their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which...
Page 11 - And, uupleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil.
Page 41 - It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit of wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive ; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth ; namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Page 31 - ... is confined within narrow barriers which cannot be passed, and the problem of their elevation is hopeless. As a body they will not rise at all. A few, more energetic or more fortunate than the rest, will from time to time escape, as they do now, from the ranks of their fellows to the higher walks of industrial life, but the great majority will remain substantially where they are. The remuneration of labor as such, skilled or unskilled can never rise much above its present...
Page 315 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation...