Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1884 - 256 páginas |
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... is sometimes held to be a reproach , affected him less than others , for he was always full of courage and spirit . At eighteen years of age , having no one to advise him , he formed for himself the singular resolution of vi Memoir .
... is sometimes held to be a reproach , affected him less than others , for he was always full of courage and spirit . At eighteen years of age , having no one to advise him , he formed for himself the singular resolution of vi Memoir .
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... less full than those of the earlier ones ; but my warmest thanks are due to both Mr. Ashley and Mr. King for the large expenditure of time and trouble and the great care which they have bestowed upon the work . The Popular Addresses ...
... less full than those of the earlier ones ; but my warmest thanks are due to both Mr. Ashley and Mr. King for the large expenditure of time and trouble and the great care which they have bestowed upon the work . The Popular Addresses ...
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... less notorious , that up to the year 1818 , the science of Political Economy was scarcely known or talked of beyond a small circle of philosophers , and that legislation , so far from being in conformity with its principles , was daily ...
... less notorious , that up to the year 1818 , the science of Political Economy was scarcely known or talked of beyond a small circle of philosophers , and that legislation , so far from being in conformity with its principles , was daily ...
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... less real than the island of Lilliput , which never has had and never can have any existence . A logical artifice became the accepted picture of the real world . Not that Ricardo himself , a benevolent and kind - hearted man , could ...
... less real than the island of Lilliput , which never has had and never can have any existence . A logical artifice became the accepted picture of the real world . Not that Ricardo himself , a benevolent and kind - hearted man , could ...
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... less simple and captivating , are more just , on account of their embracing more of the causes which are in actual operation in all economical results . " " 1 In these sentences , written four years after the publication of the first ...
... less simple and captivating , are more just , on account of their embracing more of the causes which are in actual operation in all economical results . " " 1 In these sentences , written four years after the publication of the first ...
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Adam Smith agricultural America Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion Balliol College believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivation demand distribution of wealth districts economists effect employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners living Malthus manufacturers masters mediæval merchants method Mill modern moral nature Northern Tour organisation pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal revolution Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spiritual theory things thought tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
Pasajes populares
Página 15 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 75 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 12 - By this wise provision," he says, " ie by making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 185 - The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.
Página 194 - We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings; we think, nothing doubting, that // absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. "My starving workers?
Página 106 - Throughout the whole of the present work I have so far differed in principle from the former, as to suppose the action of another check to population which does not come under the head either of vice or misery; and, in the latter part I have endeavoured to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first Essay.
Página 98 - Sunday following, if need require, when the people are at the church at divine service, shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charity will be contented to give weekly towards the relief of the poor...
Página 81 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 90 - Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent fact to be the substitution of the factory for the domestic system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time.
Página 115 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.