The Relation of Political Economy to the Labor QuestionsA. Williams, 1882 - 53 strani |
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Stran 38 - Labour is the contest of the life of man with an opposite , — the term " life " including his intellect, soul, and physical power, contending with question, difficulty, trial, or material force.
Stran 38 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Stran 50 - There is not, I apprehend, to be found in any part of the world, a manufacturing community in which so much order, good government, tranquillity, and rational happiness prevail.
Stran 10 - It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth, namely, aversion to labor, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences. . . . Political Economy considers mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth...
Stran 7 - Whatsoever ye sow, that also shall ye reap, and he that is faithful over a few things shall be made ruler over many.
Stran 9 - It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end.
Stran 30 - ... the right course; and the illimitable generations and ages which yet lie before humanity ere the goal be reached. Our present condition, no doubt, is discouraging enough; we have been sailing for centuries on a wrong tack, but we are beginning, though only just beginning, to put about the helm.
Stran 31 - What a gradual transformation — transformation almost reaching to transfiguration — will not steal over the aspect of civilized communities, when, by a few generations during which Hygienic science and sense shall have been in the ascendant, the restored health of mankind shall have -corrected the morbid exaggeration of our appetites; when the more questionable instincts and passions, less and less exercised and stimulated for centuries, shall have faded into comparative quiescence; when the...
Stran 13 - Edinburgh, to treat of political economy, which he defines as aiming " at the diffusion of sufficiency and comfort throughout the mass of the population by a multiplication or enlargement of the outward means and materials of human enjoyment.