The Science of Society, Issues 1-2Baner, 1852 |
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according already amount of labor applied assert augmentation basis benefit benevolence bestowed burden capital circulating medium classes co-operation combined commodities competition condition of society consequences Cost Principle Democracy Economy element equally equi Equity equivalent erwise essential evil exchange existing fact genius George Combe Government hand harmony Hence human labor Hydropathy Individual industry interests JOSIAH WARREN kinds of labor Labor Note legitimate less limit of price mankind marriage means measure ment merely mind mutual natural wealth necessity objection occupation operation party performance persons Phrenology political practical precisely present princi Protestantism pursuit reform relations render rent repug repugnance Rowland Hill sacrifice Science of Society scientific security of condition sentiment social Sovereignty species speculation STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS superior supply and demand supply to demand tastes thing tion trade true principle Value Principle vidual Water-Cure whole
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Page 62 - And from the lips of Truth one mighty breath Shall, like a whirlwind, scatter in its breeze The whole dark pile of human mockeries; — Then shall the reign of mind commence on earth, And starting fresh as from a second birth, Man, in the sunshine of the world's new spring, Shall walk transparent, like some holy thing!
Page 57 - It follows, therefore, in order to arrive at a satisfactory measure of Equity, and the adoption of a scientific system of commerce, 1. That some method must be devised for comparing the relative repugnance of different kinds of labor. 2. That in making the comparison, each individual must make his or her own estimate of the repugnance to him or her of the labor which he or she performs, and 3. That there should be a sufficient motive in the results or consequences to insure an honest exercise of...
Page 21 - And by Individuality he means that "There are no two objects in the universe which are precisely alike. . . . Infinite diversity is the universal law." This is true of persons, things, and events. "This indestructible and all-pervading Individuality furnishes itself the law, and the only true law, of order and harmony." Government does not and can not preserve order. Individuality is the essential law of order throughout the universe. just as harmony of the universe is maintained by the single atom...
Page 61 - Commerce extends, with money altogether, or rather introducing a new species of paper-money, based upon individual responsibility. The use of the labor note is not strictly a principle of equity, and partakes more of the nature of a contrivance than any other feature of the system of equitable Commerce ; but yet it seems to be a necessary instrument to be employed in the practical working of the system. The theory of equity is complete without it, but the necessity for its use arises from the practical...
Page 63 - I have said, accepted into the public mind, will do more than laws, and the sanctions of laws, to regulate individual conduct and intercourse. The limitation is this: every individual is the rightful sovereign over his own conduct in all things, whenever, and just so far as, the consequences of his conduct can be assumed by himself; or, rather, inasmuch as no one objects to assuming agreeable consequences, whenever, and as far as, this is true of the disagreeable consequences. For disagreeable consequences,...
Page 9 - ... There must be a new world, if there is to be any world at all ! That human things in our Europe can ever return to the old sorry routine, and proceed with any steadiness or continuance there ; this small hope is not now a tenable one. These days of universal death must be days of universal newbirth, if the ruin is not to be total and final ! It is a Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came ? Whither he is bound 1 —A veritable 'New Era,' to the foolish as well as...
Page 19 - There are no two objects in the universe which are precisely alike. Each has its own constitution and peculiarities, which distinguish it from every other. Infinite diversity is the universal law.
Page 6 - If researches into the habits of beetles and tadpoles, and their localities and conditions of existence, are entitled to the dignified appellation of Science, certainly similar researches into the nature, the wants, the adaptations, and, so to speak, into the true or requisite moral and social habitat of the spiritual animal called Man must be, if conducted according to the rigid methods of scientific induction from observed facts, equally entitled to that distinction. The series of works, of which...
Page 53 - Labor has three bases of evaluation — intensity ("amount of repugnance overcome"), time, and skill. Fixed capital will be exchanged on this basis. But since exchange in kind is not always possible, a labor note will be made out which will give evidence of an obligation to be met at some...
Page 62 - ... 2. Being based on individual credit, it makes every man his own banker. This feature of the labor note system is substantially contained in the preceding statement, but the more important consequences of this fact remain to be pointed out. Bankers are proverbial for their anxiety to maintain their credit unimpaired and unsuspected. With them distrust is synonymous with the ruin of their bueinese.