Individualism, a System of PoliticsMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 393 páginas Chapter IX appeared originally in the Westminster review (July, 1886) cf. Pref. |
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Act of Parliament action admit argument Auberon Herbert better called capital capitalist Church citizens civilisation co-operation common compulsory Corn-Laws cost course definition demand doctrine economists effect employer England English equal evil existence fact favour fee simple force freedom Fyffe hands increased individual individualist industry interest interference Ireland J. S. Mill Joynes justice kind labour laissez-faire land landlord landowner legislation less liberty Lord Salisbury majority matter means ment moral nation nature necessary neo-radical object opinion organisation owner ownership Parliament party persons political practical present principle production profits proprietor question reason recognised reformers regard rent result Roman law rule sense serfdom share slaves social socialists society Spencer suppose surplus value tend tendency term things tion tithes trade true wagedom wages wealth whole WORDSWORTH DONISTHORPE workers workman
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Página 117 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Página 146 - The acquisition of such talents, by the maintenance of the acquirer during his education, study, or apprenticeship, always costs a real expense, which is a capital fixed and realised, as it were, in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise of that of the society to which he belongs.
Página 112 - ... when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Página 364 - If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stock companies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of the government, if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the...
Página 325 - What is a communist ? One who has yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings : An idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling...
Página 129 - What capital does for production, is to afford the shelter, protection, tools and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the labourers during the process.
Página 393 - Stands alone as the one general history of the country, for the sake of which all others, if young and old are wise, will be speedily and surely set aside.
Página 126 - Austin avoided this mistake, but perhaps in defining property as " a right over a determinate thing, indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition, and unlimited in point of duration...
Página 146 - I do not class as wealth. He is the purpose for which wealth exists. But his acquired capacities, which exist only as means, and have been called into existence by labour, fall rightly, as it seems to me, \vithiii that designation.
Página 6 - With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battleflags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.