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... Natural Growth of a Varied Industry ; ?? 229-231 : The Interferences with this Growth ; ?? 232-236 : Political Theorists object to State Resistance to these Interferences ; ?? 237-239 : Tariffs , their Methods and the Incidence of their ...
... Natural Growth of a Varied Industry ; ?? 229-231 : The Interferences with this Growth ; ?? 232-236 : Political Theorists object to State Resistance to these Interferences ; ?? 237-239 : Tariffs , their Methods and the Incidence of their ...
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... natural right to property , by which that welfare is perpetuated from day to day , is realized only in society . The transmission of the things that contribute to ma- terial welfare from one generation to another - of real and per ...
... natural right to property , by which that welfare is perpetuated from day to day , is realized only in society . The transmission of the things that contribute to ma- terial welfare from one generation to another - of real and per ...
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... natural line of thought , and in that age the " natural " was conceived as the antithesis of civilization , as then existing . In Quesnay's view nature , -by which he meant the productive powers of the soil , —is the sole source of a ...
... natural line of thought , and in that age the " natural " was conceived as the antithesis of civilization , as then existing . In Quesnay's view nature , -by which he meant the productive powers of the soil , —is the sole source of a ...
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... natural growth of the three great industries , through whose association men advance from the poverty of the savage life to material welfare , he pronounces against all efforts of the state to direct and foster any one of the three , as ...
... natural growth of the three great industries , through whose association men advance from the poverty of the savage life to material welfare , he pronounces against all efforts of the state to direct and foster any one of the three , as ...
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... natural rate of wages , a medium between these two oscillations , above which and below which the rate was unstable and could not be permanent . Also that , calling the amount of capital in the country that was available for the wages ...
... natural rate of wages , a medium between these two oscillations , above which and below which the rate was unstable and could not be permanent . Also that , calling the amount of capital in the country that was available for the wages ...
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Page 38 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Page 133 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 198 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 76 - 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.
Page 198 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 73 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 198 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Page 328 - IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE.
Page 37 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout.
Page 262 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should, at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on, until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional.