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With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
With the commanding influence of superior talent , he had fixed at once the attention of the world on a physical power possessed by the human race , of multiplying its aggregate numbers ; which , if long exerted to its greatest extent ...
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... the permanence of human happiness , and the natural action of the laws established by Providence was enforced . ... but confidently and sedulously hinted at , that the most cherished moral feelings which guide the human heart ...
... the permanence of human happiness , and the natural action of the laws established by Providence was enforced . ... but confidently and sedulously hinted at , that the most cherished moral feelings which guide the human heart ...
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The principles which determine the position and progress , and conduct , of large bodies of the human race , placed under different circumstances , can be learnt only by an appeal to experience . He must , indeed , be a shallow reasoner ...
The principles which determine the position and progress , and conduct , of large bodies of the human race , placed under different circumstances , can be learnt only by an appeal to experience . He must , indeed , be a shallow reasoner ...
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of this fact is of itself sufficient to inspire distrust in those dismal systems which teach that the whole human race is under the resistless dominion of an impulse , forcing ever its aggregate numbers forwards to the extreme limit of ...
of this fact is of itself sufficient to inspire distrust in those dismal systems which teach that the whole human race is under the resistless dominion of an impulse , forcing ever its aggregate numbers forwards to the extreme limit of ...
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... the influence of that structure on the wealth and happiness of communities of human beings , from their rudest to their most advanced states , and under all their varieties 1 I See in the Appendix some observations ...
... the influence of that structure on the wealth and happiness of communities of human beings , from their rudest to their most advanced states , and under all their varieties 1 I See in the Appendix some observations ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones ..., Volume 1 An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation, Richard Jones Books for college libraries Issue 26666 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature "Essay on the distribution of wealth ... Part I.--Rent." |
| Author | Richard Jones |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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