The Political Economy of HumanismLee and Shepard, 1901 - 315 páginas |
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abnormal abuses accumulated active altruism American amount antagonism artificial Australasia average basis become capital cause cent character charity Charles Talbot Porter cities civilization co-operation coinage combination commerce competition confidence corporations currency dollars duction DUKE OF ARGYLL economic EDWARD BURTON effort element employer enterprise EPICTETUS existing fact force furnish gold harmony higher human ideal idleness increase individual industrial inherent interest investment Knights of Labor labor labor unions lative legislation less limited manual matter ment mental modern moral Natural Law natural monopolies natural principles nomic normal operation organizations panic penalty political economy possible practical present prevailing production profit prosperity protection railroad railway rates regard regulation relations result selfish sentimental silver social socialistic society supply and demand tariff tendency thing thousand tion trade transactions true union vidual wages wealth
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Página 184 - Young man, there is America,— which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 184 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day — Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 170 - Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Página 281 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Página 158 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Página 122 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. CADE. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Página 194 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 24 - Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Página 134 - Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Página 60 - Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself.