Lectures on Colonization and Colonies: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in 1839, 1840, and 1841, Volume 1 |
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Page 169 - No man produces but with a view to consume or sell, and he never sells but with an intention to purchase some other commodity, which may be immediately useful to him, or which may contribute to future production.
Page 208 - It is not impossible, therefore, that some of the regulations of this famous act may have proceeded from national animosity. They are as wise, however, as if they had all been dictated by the most deliberate wisdom. National animosity at that particular time aimed at the very same object which the most deliberate wisdom would have recommended, the diminution of the naval power of Holland, the only naval power which could endanger the security of England.
Page 136 - So that it is as if a man were troubled for the avoidance of water from the place where he hath built his house, and afterwards should advise with himself to cast those waters and to turn them into fair pools or streams, for pleasure, provision, or use.
Page 136 - An effect of peace in fruitful kingdoms (where the stock of people, receiving no consumption nor diminution by war, doth continually multiply and increase) must, in the end, be a surcharge or overflow of people more than the territories can well maintain ; which, many times insinuating a general necessity and want of means into all estates, doth turn external peace into internal troubles and seditions ; now what an excellent diversion of this inconvenience is ministered...
Page 104 - In regard to the legislative power, there was a still greater latitude allowed ; for notwithstanding the cautious reference in the charters to the laws of England, the assemblies actually exercised the authority to abrogate every part of the common law, except that, which united the colonies to the parent state by the general ties of allegiance and dependency; and every part of the statute law, except those acts of Parliament, which expressly prescribed rules for the colonies...
Page 169 - There cannot, then, be accumulated in a country any amount of capital which cannot be employed productively, uutil wages rise so high in consequence of the rise of necessaries,' and so little consequently remains for the profits of stock, that the motive for accumulation ceases.
Page 57 - France, with one stroke of the pen, found herself stripped of those boundless possessions which she had acquired at the cost of so much heroic blood and so much treasure, and which extended in one proud, uninterrupted line, from the mouth of the St.
Page 133 - It is a sort of instinctive feeling to us all, that the destiny of our name and nation is not here, in this narrow island which we occupy ; that the spirit of England is volatile, not fixed...
Page 276 - It is remarkable that the Indian administration of one of the worst governments of Europe, and that in which the general principles of legislation and good government are least understood, — one too, which has never been skillfully executed, should, upon the whole, have proved the least injurious to the happiness and prosperity of the native inhabitants of the country. This, undoubtedly, has been the character of the Spanish connection with the Philippines, with all its vices, follies, and illiberalities...
Page 169 - ... production. By producing, then, he necessarily becomes either the consumer of his own goods, or the purchaser and consumer of the goods of some other person. It is not to be supposed that he should, for any length of time, be ill-informed of the commodities which he can most advantageously produce, to attain the object which he has in view, namely, the possession of other goods; and therefore, it is not probable that he will continually produce a commodity for which there is no demand...