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... examine at length in the sequel . Yet , lest the reader should be alarmed by the hints thrown out during the fol lowing investigation of first principles , as if they were lead- ing him into unexpectedly dangerous ground , I will , for ...
... examine at length in the sequel . Yet , lest the reader should be alarmed by the hints thrown out during the fol lowing investigation of first principles , as if they were lead- ing him into unexpectedly dangerous ground , I will , for ...
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... as a covetous machine , examine by what laws of labour , purchase , and sale , the greatest accumulative result in wealth is attainable . Those et u Me FLONOMICUS laws once determined , it will be for each individual 66 ...
... as a covetous machine , examine by what laws of labour , purchase , and sale , the greatest accumulative result in wealth is attainable . Those et u Me FLONOMICUS laws once determined , it will be for each individual 66 ...
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... examined . Supposing a body in motion to be influenced by constant and inconstant forces , it is usually the simplest way of examining its course to trace it first under the persistent conditions , and afterwards introduce the causes of ...
... examined . Supposing a body in motion to be influenced by constant and inconstant forces , it is usually the simplest way of examining its course to trace it first under the persistent conditions , and afterwards introduce the causes of ...
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... examine all the evidence on the other side , which Dickens seems to overlook , it will appear , after all their trouble , that his view was the finally right one , grossly and sharply told . the full strength of his subordinates . If a ...
... examine all the evidence on the other side , which Dickens seems to overlook , it will appear , after all their trouble , that his view was the finally right one , grossly and sharply told . the full strength of his subordinates . If a ...
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... examine into the history of rogues , you will find they are as truly manufac tured articles as anything else , and it is just because our prosent system of political economy gives so large a stimulus to that manufacture that you may ...
... examine into the history of rogues , you will find they are as truly manufac tured articles as anything else , and it is just because our prosent system of political economy gives so large a stimulus to that manufacture that you may ...
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Page 24 - But let us not lose the use of Dickens's wit and insight, because he chooses to speak in a circle of stage fire. He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written ; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions.
Page 15 - AMONG the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious - certainly the least creditable - is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page vi - Writers on Political Economy profess to teach, or to investigate, the nature of Wealth, and the laws of its production and distribution: including, directly or remotely, the operation of all the causes by which the condition of mankind, or of any society of human beings, in respect to this universal object of human desire, is made prosperous or the reverse.
Page 59 - In fact, it may be discovered that the true veins of wealth are purple, and not in rock, but in flesh ; perhaps even that the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in the producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures.
Page 98 - The real science of political economy, which has yet to be distinguished from the bastard science, as medicine from witchcraft, and astronomy from astrology, is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life ; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction.
Page 35 - The Soldier's profession is to defend it. The Pastor's to teach it. The Physician's to keep it in health. The Lawyer's to enforce justice in it. The Merchant's to provide for it.
Page 35 - ... sixpences have to be lost as well as lives, under a sense of duty ; that the market may have its martyrdoms as well as the pulpit ; and trade its heroisms as well as war.