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... trade , so the " Essay on Population " altered the presumption in favor of the advocates of progress to a presumption against them . This may not describe the final result of the Essay , but it is a true account of its immediate effect ...
... trade , so the " Essay on Population " altered the presumption in favor of the advocates of progress to a presumption against them . This may not describe the final result of the Essay , but it is a true account of its immediate effect ...
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... trade was making a brave start . The discoveries of coal and iron in Northern England , going hand in hand with the inven- tions of cotton - spinning and weaving , were beginning to convert the poorest counties into the richest ...
... trade was making a brave start . The discoveries of coal and iron in Northern England , going hand in hand with the inven- tions of cotton - spinning and weaving , were beginning to convert the poorest counties into the richest ...
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... trade . The poor were not to have cheap corn , they were to have large al- lowances . Legislation had gone backwards in this matter . In 1723 a new law had introduced a wise workhouse test of destitution , which might have prevented ...
... trade . The poor were not to have cheap corn , they were to have large al- lowances . Legislation had gone backwards in this matter . In 1723 a new law had introduced a wise workhouse test of destitution , which might have prevented ...
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... trade almost as Mons . Jourdain talked prose , without knowing it . Precisely the same is true of Adam Smith himself in relation to Malthus . Of his own generalizations he is complete master . Hav . ing reasoned up to them , he can ...
... trade almost as Mons . Jourdain talked prose , without knowing it . Precisely the same is true of Adam Smith himself in relation to Malthus . Of his own generalizations he is complete master . Hav . ing reasoned up to them , he can ...
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... trade , the old orthodox economical panacea for economic evils ; and the essayist agrees with Adam Smith in a general resistance to legis- lative interference . Bad as are the effects of the irremovable causes of poverty , interference ...
... trade , the old orthodox economical panacea for economic evils ; and the essayist agrees with Adam Smith in a general resistance to legis- lative interference . Bad as are the effects of the irremovable causes of poverty , interference ...
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Page 62 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Page 130 - If your only object in trade is to make the largest possible profit, you ought always to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest...
Page 21 - Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilized society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which...
Page 62 - And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle : and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Page 205 - And let us not be weary in well doing : for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. 10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Page 39 - In the northern states of America, where the means of subsistence have been more ample, the manners of the people more pure, and the checks to early marriages fewer than in any of the modern states of Europe, the population has been found to double itself, for above a century and a half successively, in less than twenty-five years.
Page 22 - I have hinted before in a note, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind, a process necessary to awaken inert, chaotic matter into spirit, to sublimate the dust of the earth into soul, to elicit an ethereal spark from the clod of clay.
Page 123 - Our differences may in some respects, I think, be ascribed to your considering my book as more practical than I intended it to be. My object was to elucidate principles, and to do this I imagined strong cases, that I might show the operation of those principles.
Page 115 - By the union with England, the middling and inferior ranks of people in Scotland gained a complete deliverance from the power of an aristocracy which had always before oppressed them.