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Page 173
... gain , is attain- able only by construction or by discovery ; not by exchange . Whenever material gain follows exchange , for every plus there is a precisely equal minus . " Unhappily for the progress of the science of Political Economy ...
... gain , is attain- able only by construction or by discovery ; not by exchange . Whenever material gain follows exchange , for every plus there is a precisely equal minus . " Unhappily for the progress of the science of Political Economy ...
Page 182
... gain , not on mouth - gain ; and they fall into every sort of net and snare , dazzled by the coin - glitter as birds by the fowler's glass ; or rather ( for there is not much else like birds in them ) they are like children trying to ...
... gain , not on mouth - gain ; and they fall into every sort of net and snare , dazzled by the coin - glitter as birds by the fowler's glass ; or rather ( for there is not much else like birds in them ) they are like children trying to ...
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... gain ; nor is this gain one which will follow assuredly on any course of business , commonly so called . No form of gain is less probable , business being ( as is Ad Valorem 191.
... gain ; nor is this gain one which will follow assuredly on any course of business , commonly so called . No form of gain is less probable , business being ( as is Ad Valorem 191.
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