Progress and poverty, Volume 1421882 |
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions ... Henry George Visualização integral - 1882 |
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions ... Henry George Visualização integral - 1883 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Smith advance amount arise become cause civilisation classes condition demand distribution of wealth division of labour doctrine drawn from capital effect employer England equal everywhere evident exchange exertion existing fact factors of production fixed force give greater Herbert Spencer human idea improvement increase of population India individual industry invention John Stuart Mill justice labour and capital land owners land values latifundia law of rent law of wages live machinery Malthus margin of cultivation material progress merely monopoly natural necessary organisation ownership paid petrifaction poverty present principle private property produce of labour production of wealth productive power profits progressive countries property in land proportion Ralahine recognised result secure slavery social society soil speculative square mile subsistence supply taxation taxes tendency tends things tion truth value of land wages and interest yield
Passagens conhecidas
Página 15 - It may be fairly pronounced therefore, that, considering the present average state of the earth, the means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favourable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.
Página 71 - 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.
Página 2 - So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Página 61 - 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 they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State .... In the observation or neglect of this maxim, consists what is called the equality 'or inequality of taxation.
Página 33 - 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. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west : But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 32 - Every colonist gets more land than he can possibly cultivate. He has no rent and scarce any taxes to pay. No landlord shares with him in its produce, and the share of the sovereign is commonly but a trifle. He has every motive to render as great as possible a produce which is thus to be almost entirely his own. But his land is commonly so extensive that with all...
Página 8 - Such cases, however, are not very frequent, and in every part of Europe, twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent...
Página 15 - 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...
Página 69 - 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.
Página 41 - 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.