The Analysis of Human Nature: Or, An Investigation of the Means to Improve the Condition of the Poor, and to Promote the Happiness of Mankind in General; Comprising, Also, the Progress and Present State of Political, Moral, and Religious Society, Volume 1W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818 - Great Britain |
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... agriculture . There is no want of food when there is money to pay for it . The supply of food , like other things , is always according to the demand ; and nothing but money , or the means of barter , is ever known to be deficient ; but ...
... agriculture . There is no want of food when there is money to pay for it . The supply of food , like other things , is always according to the demand ; and nothing but money , or the means of barter , is ever known to be deficient ; but ...
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... agriculture , and giving them the habits of idleness . The Romans could get corn without labour , and therefore they had no inclination to work ; but , when corn was not to be obtained by these means , the people retorted upon their ...
... agriculture , and giving them the habits of idleness . The Romans could get corn without labour , and therefore they had no inclination to work ; but , when corn was not to be obtained by these means , the people retorted upon their ...
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... agriculture , " he says , " has been much studied in England and Scotland , and there is still a great portion of ... agricultural subjects , that , in proportion as cultivation is extended , the COMPARED WITH THAT OF FOOD . 75.
... agriculture , " he says , " has been much studied in England and Scotland , and there is still a great portion of ... agricultural subjects , that , in proportion as cultivation is extended , the COMPARED WITH THAT OF FOOD . 75.
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... agriculture were pro- perly applied , in such and other countries , to their full extent , with true civil liberty , may not the Divine ordinance , to increase and multiply , be extended without fear ? A modern and almost un ...
... agriculture were pro- perly applied , in such and other countries , to their full extent , with true civil liberty , may not the Divine ordinance , to increase and multiply , be extended without fear ? A modern and almost un ...
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... agriculture , and living chiefly upon the roots of different plants , which they procure with great difficulty , wandering from place to place in search of them . Sometimes they kill game and sometimes they catch fish , but in such ...
... agriculture , and living chiefly upon the roots of different plants , which they procure with great difficulty , wandering from place to place in search of them . Sometimes they kill game and sometimes they catch fish , but in such ...
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Page 19 - men's hearts failing them through fear, and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." " And then shall they see the Son of Man, (or truth,) coming in a cloud, with power and great glory; and when these things begin to come
Page 27 - Soul, thou hast much goods laid up in store for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry." " But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose will those things be which thou hast provided
Page 302 - make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part, can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can surely be flourishing, or happy, of which the far greater part of its members are poor and miserable. It is
Page 77 - increase. In the next twentyfive years, the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirty-three millions. In the next period, the population would be eighty-eight millions, and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number; and, at the conclusion of the first century,
Page 11 - principle," that any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are, to a great extent, at the command, and under the control, of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Page 77 - when brought together, will be very striking. Let us call the population of this island eleven millions, and suppose the present produce equal to the easy support of such a number. In the first twenty-five years, the population would be twenty-two millions, and the food being also doubled, the means of subsistence would be equal to this
Page 417 - to prohibit a great people from making all they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way they may judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Page 316 - manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods, both at home and abroad ; but they say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains; they complain only of those of
Page 88 - From whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, " And makes us rather bear those ills we have, " Than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 69 - it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only; as for instance, with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might, in a few ages, be replenished from one nation only; as, for instance, with Englishmen.