Essays in Political and Moral PhilosophyHodges, Foster & Figgis, 1879 - 483 páginas |
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... condition of society , but its moral and economic theories and ideas , are the results of the course of national history and the state of national culture . Contemporary social phe- nomena , such as the statistician explores , though ...
... condition of society , but its moral and economic theories and ideas , are the results of the course of national history and the state of national culture . Contemporary social phe- nomena , such as the statistician explores , though ...
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... condition of the world which merit the attention of the political economist , but it has also , in a great measure , sprung from the absence , for many ages , of the conditions essential to general prosperity , and the accumulation of ...
... condition of the world which merit the attention of the political economist , but it has also , in a great measure , sprung from the absence , for many ages , of the conditions essential to general prosperity , and the accumulation of ...
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... condition of society . Riches , ' said Milton , grow in hell ; ' for even in his time much of the wealth that grew on earth bore many marks of being the property of bad and unhappy beings . But we may venture now to ask those well ...
... condition of society . Riches , ' said Milton , grow in hell ; ' for even in his time much of the wealth that grew on earth bore many marks of being the property of bad and unhappy beings . But we may venture now to ask those well ...
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... condition of the bulk of the people , that is to say , of the whole rural population except the proprietary class , in the feudal period ? From the village in which he was born , a peasant could seldom escape , unless by the gate of ...
... condition of the bulk of the people , that is to say , of the whole rural population except the proprietary class , in the feudal period ? From the village in which he was born , a peasant could seldom escape , unless by the gate of ...
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... condition of the British Empire proves . Even in France , under the present monarchy , the majority of the inhabitants have far more real liberty than when it was divided into numerous petty tyrannies , when the weak were always at the ...
... condition of the British Empire proves . Even in France , under the present monarchy , the majority of the inhabitants have far more real liberty than when it was divided into numerous petty tyrannies , when the weak were always at the ...
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Página 154 - ... greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 154 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 53 - All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to -pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
Página 44 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Página 45 - The heart knoweth its own bitterness ; and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy.
Página 166 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations...
Página 36 - And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject...
Página 32 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Página 44 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
Página 55 - It is a manifest encroachment upon the just liberty both of the workman, and of those who might be disposed to employ him. As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.