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... hands of at- taining purposes generally ; and this power no other kind of wealth confers so immediately or so certainly as money . It is the only form of wealth which is not merely applicable to some one use , but can be turned at once ...
... hands of at- taining purposes generally ; and this power no other kind of wealth confers so immediately or so certainly as money . It is the only form of wealth which is not merely applicable to some one use , but can be turned at once ...
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... hands employed in collecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the immediate household of the sove- reign . A large part is distributed among the various functionaries of go- vernment , and among the objects of the ...
... hands employed in collecting it , many persons of course participate , besides the immediate household of the sove- reign . A large part is distributed among the various functionaries of go- vernment , and among the objects of the ...
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... hands ; it has active energies by which it co - ope- rates with , and may even be used as a In the early ages people converted their corn into flour by pounding it between two stones ; they next hit on a contrivance which enabled them ...
... hands ; it has active energies by which it co - ope- rates with , and may even be used as a In the early ages people converted their corn into flour by pounding it between two stones ; they next hit on a contrivance which enabled them ...
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... hands of the agriculturist , is nothing more than material for the occupation of the baker or the cook . Το § 4. The ... hand ) by a single employment . Thus fuel , once burnt , cannot be again used as fuel ; what can be so used is only ...
... hands of the agriculturist , is nothing more than material for the occupation of the baker or the cook . Το § 4. The ... hand ) by a single employment . Thus fuel , once burnt , cannot be again used as fuel ; what can be so used is only ...
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... hands . But even in this case , attendance is often very troublesome and inconvenient to buyers who have other occupations , and do not live in the immediate vicinity ; while , for all articles the pro- duction of which requires ...
... hands . But even in this case , attendance is often very troublesome and inconvenient to buyers who have other occupations , and do not live in the immediate vicinity ; while , for all articles the pro- duction of which requires ...
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Page 483 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 573 - Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice : every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil.
Page 556 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily (especially in a young and rising nation) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Page 128 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 575 - Now any wellintentioned and tolerably civilized government may think without presumption that it does or ought to possess a degree of cultivation above the average of the community which it rules, and that it should therefore be capable of offering better education and better instruction to the people, than the greater number of them would spontaneously demand. Education, therefore, is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a government should provide for the people.