The Unity of Law: As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral Science |
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... slaves to nature , and the societies of which they are parts must exhibit the same weakness now so clearly obvious in all those communities which , like Ireland , India , Portugal , Turkey , and Carolina , find themselves limited to the ...
... slaves to nature , and the societies of which they are parts must exhibit the same weakness now so clearly obvious in all those communities which , like Ireland , India , Portugal , Turkey , and Carolina , find themselves limited to the ...
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... slaves , the greater becomes the power of production , and the greater the tendency toward that accumulation of wealth which manifests itself in the physical , mental , moral , and political improvement of a people . Such , very briefly ...
... slaves , the greater becomes the power of production , and the greater the tendency toward that accumulation of wealth which manifests itself in the physical , mental , moral , and political improvement of a people . Such , very briefly ...
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... slavery , having been thus established as a necessary result of divine institutions , Mr. Mill certainly did not err when telling his readers that the law of the con- stantly decreasing productiveness of agricultural labor whose ...
... slavery , having been thus established as a necessary result of divine institutions , Mr. Mill certainly did not err when telling his readers that the law of the con- stantly decreasing productiveness of agricultural labor whose ...
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... slaves or bales of cotton . * The reader who may desire to see a more full examination of some of the details of the modern science will do well to consult an article on " Economic Fallacies " in the London Quarterly Review for July ...
... slaves or bales of cotton . * The reader who may desire to see a more full examination of some of the details of the modern science will do well to consult an article on " Economic Fallacies " in the London Quarterly Review for July ...
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... slave to the latter . Population and wealth , however , increasing , and labor becoming more productive , the land - owner's share ... slaves of nature . In what manner is it that changes in one tend to OF SCIENCE AND ITS METHODS . 67.
... slave to the latter . Population and wealth , however , increasing , and labor becoming more productive , the land - owner's share ... slaves of nature . In what manner is it that changes in one tend to OF SCIENCE AND ITS METHODS . 67.
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Page 62 - The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 48 - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point ; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs : therefore it is good, before we enter into the former distribution, to erect and constitute one universal science, by the name of Philosophia prima...
Page xx - With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated, and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment.
Page 437 - AMOROUX, AND JOHNSON.— The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing Companion ? Forming a Complete Course of Mechanical Engineering and Architectural Drawing. From the French of M. Armengaud the elder, Prof, of Design in the Conservatoire of Arts and Industry, Paris,, and MM. Armengaud the younger, and Amoroux, Civil Engineers.
Page 208 - ... perpetual thunder and lightning of countless steamboats; the currency sound and abundant; the public debt of two wars nearly redeemed; and, to crown all, the public treasury overflowing, embarrassing Congress, not to find subjects of taxation, but to select the objects which shall be liberated from the impost.