Free-thought in the Social Sciences

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Macmillan, 1926 - 288 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 86 - No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
الصفحة 72 - All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord.
الصفحة 71 - It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.
الصفحة 132 - State of which the only thing one can say with real knowledge is, that its foundation will be : " from each according to his powers, to each according to his needs.
الصفحة 25 - By this continuance they will become every way skilfullest, best provided of intelligence from abroad, best acquainted with the people at home, and the people with them. The ship of the commonwealth is always under sail; they sit at the stern; and if they steer well, what need is there to change them, it being rather dangerous? Add to this, that the Grand Council is both foundation and main pillar of the whole state; and to move pillars and foundations, not faulty, cannot be safe for the building....
الصفحة 26 - Pillar of the whole State ; and to move Pillars and Foundations, not faulty, cannot be safe for the Building. I see not therefore, how we can be advantaged by successive and transitory Parliaments...
الصفحة 97 - We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production. It is true that when one blade is held still, and the cutting is effected by moving the other, we may say with careless brevity that the cutting is done by the second; but the statement is not strictly accurate, and is to be excused only so long as it claims to be merely a popular and not a strictly scientific account...
الصفحة 82 - The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the War, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably. The railways of the world, which that age built as a monument to posterity, were, not less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the work of labour which was not free to consume in immediate enjoyment the full equivalent of its efforts.
الصفحة 93 - Given, a certain population, with various needs and powers of production, in possession of certain lands and other sources of material: required, the mode of employing their labour which will maximize the utility of the produce.
الصفحة 86 - The friends of humanity cannot but wish that in all countries the laboring classes should have a taste for comforts and enjoyments, and that they should be stimulated by all legal means in their exertions to procure them. There cannot be a better security against a superabundant population.

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