Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth, the RemedyW. Reeves, 1884 - 440 sider |
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Adam Smith advance agricultural amount arise become cause CHAPTER chattel slavery civilisation condition demand distribution of wealth doctrine drawn from capital duction effect employer England equal everywhere evident exchange exertion existing fact factors of production force give greater Herbert Spencer human idea improvement increase of population India individual industry invention John Stuart Mill justice labour and capital land values landowners latifundia law of rent law of wages live machinery Malthus Malthusian theory margin of cultivation material progress ment merely monopoly natural necessary owner ownership paid petrifaction plane poverty present principle private property produce of labour production of wealth productive power profits progressive countries property in land proportion race recognised result secure slavery social society soil speculative subsistence taxation taxes tendency tends things tion truth value of land wages and interest
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Side 67 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Side 362 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Side 372 - Doing this, and making the requisite addition, the formula finally stands thus :—Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Side 330 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Side 223 - My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Side 104 - The niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to over-population. An unjust distribution of wealth does not even aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt. It is in vain to say, that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence, bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.
Side 319 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 170 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.
Side 69 - ... half that number. And at the conclusion of the first century, the population would be...
Side 25 - Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to give effect to labour.