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... as they appeared . One word only is changed , correcting the estimate of a weight ; and no word is added . Although , however , I find nothing to modify in these viii papers , it is matter of regret to me PREFACE. ...
... as they appeared . One word only is changed , correcting the estimate of a weight ; and no word is added . Although , however , I find nothing to modify in these viii papers , it is matter of regret to me PREFACE. ...
Page viii
... matter of regret to me that the most startling of all the statements in them , -that respecting the necessity of the organization of labour , with fixed wages , —should have found its way into the first essay ; it being quite one of the ...
... matter of regret to me that the most startling of all the statements in them , -that respecting the necessity of the organization of labour , with fixed wages , —should have found its way into the first essay ; it being quite one of the ...
Page ix
... matter human judgment is by no means conclusive - what is , or is not , the noblest of God's works , we may yet admit so much of Pope's assertion as that an honest man is among His best works presently visible , and , as things stand ...
... matter human judgment is by no means conclusive - what is , or is not , the noblest of God's works , we may yet admit so much of Pope's assertion as that an honest man is among His best works presently visible , and , as things stand ...
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... matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish , because he has deserved well of his parish , as for a man in higher rank * Addenda , p . 102 . to take his pension from his country , because he PREFACE . xiii.
... matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish , because he has deserved well of his parish , as for a man in higher rank * Addenda , p . 102 . to take his pension from his country , because he PREFACE . xiii.
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... matter ; obstinately the operatives another ; and no political science can set them at one . It would be strange if it could , it being not by " science " of any kind that men were ever intended to be set at one . Disputant after ...
... matter ; obstinately the operatives another ; and no political science can set them at one . It would be strange if it could , it being not by " science " of any kind that men were ever intended to be set at one . Disputant after ...
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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.