 | Crawford Brough Macpherson, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - Business & Economics - 1979 - 404 pages
...times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated, is a very poor ideal ...Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating...nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature." Concluding the chapter with the remark that "a stationary condition of capital and population implies... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay - Business & Economics - 1986 - 282 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | William Leiss - Business & Economics - 1988 - 188 pages
...desirable level had been reached almost everywhere on the planet. But there is another dimension as well: 'Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - History - 1988 - 264 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | W. W. Rostow - Business & Economics - 1992 - 733 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | Maurice Cowling - History - 1990 - 220 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | John Gray - Business & Economics - 1993 - 224 pages
...increased production is still an important object: in those most advanced, what is economically needed is a better distribution, of which one indispensable means...quadrupeds, or birds which are not domesticated for man' s use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and... | |
 | Garrett Hardin - Business & Economics - 1995 - 350 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
 | Robert Eccleshall - Ideology - 1994 - 312 pages
...effects upon nature and alienation of humans from the natural world, and anticipated later Green ideas: Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...is capable of growing food for human beings; every flower waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for... | |
 | Joel E. Cohen - Political Science - 1996 - 548 pages
...and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the...human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals... | |
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Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature ; with every rood of land brought into cultivation which is capable of growing food for human beings ; every flowery waste or natural pasture... 
