Philanthropic Economy: Or, The Philosophy of Happiness, Practically Applied to the Social, Political and Commercial Relations of Great BritainE. Churton, 1835 - 312 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... material universe which do not convey any moral lesson . 5th The diversities of the moral sense . FIRST EXCEPTION OBVIATED . First then , the permission of moral evil does not form a just exception against the truth of the fundamental ...
... material universe which do not convey any moral lesson . 5th The diversities of the moral sense . FIRST EXCEPTION OBVIATED . First then , the permission of moral evil does not form a just exception against the truth of the fundamental ...
Pàgina 11
... material and intellectual , ( except rebellious free - will ) co - operating with God in his one , eternal , universal , purpose the extension of felicity by means of moral order . The proof , therefore , that God has willed the ...
... material and intellectual , ( except rebellious free - will ) co - operating with God in his one , eternal , universal , purpose the extension of felicity by means of moral order . The proof , therefore , that God has willed the ...
Pàgina 18
... material machinery , thus required for so important a moral and intellectual purpose , in repair , are visibly aid- ing in the splendid design of benevolence , wisdom , and power , willing , planning , and executing the extension of ...
... material machinery , thus required for so important a moral and intellectual purpose , in repair , are visibly aid- ing in the splendid design of benevolence , wisdom , and power , willing , planning , and executing the extension of ...
Pàgina 21
... material creation which , however beautiful or excellent , or conducive to present enjoyment , yet do not seem to convey any special moral lesson , it is replied , that every part of the abundance which nature is capable of yielding ...
... material creation which , however beautiful or excellent , or conducive to present enjoyment , yet do not seem to convey any special moral lesson , it is replied , that every part of the abundance which nature is capable of yielding ...
Pàgina 72
... material of house building , ship building , and all manufactured goods , these are the true causes of that most unrighteous of all anomalies - the poverty of the creators of riches ; 66 in common parlance , the distress of the la- 72 ...
... material of house building , ship building , and all manufactured goods , these are the true causes of that most unrighteous of all anomalies - the poverty of the creators of riches ; 66 in common parlance , the distress of the la- 72 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 264 - Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts ; 47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Pàgina 143 - ... people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways. First? the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and whose perquisites may impose another additional tax upon the people.
Pàgina 143 - ... 4. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. A tax may either take out or keep out of the pockets of the people a great deal more than it brings into the public treasury, in the four following ways.
Pàgina 66 - Labour was the first price, the original purchasemoney that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased; and its value to those who possess it and who want to exchange it for some new productions is precisely equal to the quantity of labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
Pàgina 68 - 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 labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
Pàgina 129 - ... half of that which his Creator has furnished him with the natural means of obtaining for himself. Surely as much food as a man can buy, with as much wages as a man can get, for as much work as a man can do, is not more than the natural, inalienable birthright of every man whom God has created, with strength to labour, and with hands to work.
Pàgina 107 - Labour is there so well rewarded, that a numerous family of children, instead of being a burthen, is a source of opulence and prosperity to the parents. The labour of each child, before it can leave their house, is computed to be worth a hundred pounds clear gain to them.
Pàgina i - Secondly, taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Provisions are thereby rendered dearer in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them.
Pàgina 119 - ... sense. The consequences cannot be mistaken : — the embarrassment of our shipping, mercantile, and manufacturing interests — want of employment, and desperate poverty among the labouring population — an increase of crime, and a tendency to emigration — a loss of our currency, and a fall of the prices of labour and of corn — a diminution of the public revenue, and a derangement of the public finances — and, more than all, the certain eventual ruin of the agricultural interest itself...
Pàgina 111 - The unlimited, unrestrained freedom of the corn trade, as it is the only effectual preventative of the miseries of a famine, so it is the best palliative of the inconveniences of a dearth; for the inconveniences of a real scarcity cannot be remedied, they can only be palliated.