Individualism, a System of PoliticsMacmillan and Company, 1889 - 393 pages Chapter IX appeared originally in the Westminster review (July, 1886) cf. Pref. |
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Act of Parliament action admit argument Auberon Herbert better called capital capitalist Church citizens civilisation co-operation common compulsory cost course definition demand doctrine economists effect employer England English equal evil existence fact favour fee simple force freedom Fyffe hands increased individual individualist industry interest interference Ireland J. S. Mill Joynes justice kind labour laissez-faire land landlord landowner legislation less liberty Lord Salisbury majority matter means ment moral nation nature necessary neo-radical object opinion organisation owner ownership Parliament party persons political practical present principle production profits proprietor question reason recognised reformers regard rent result Roman law rule sense serfdom share slaves social socialists society Spencer suppose surplus value tend tendency term things tion tithes trade true truth wagedom wages wealth whole WORDSWORTH DONISTHORPE workers workman
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Page 6 - With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm ; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battleflags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal law.
Page 366 - If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stock companies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of the government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the...
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Page 147 - Of the capital engaged in the production of any commodity, there is a part which, after being once used, exists no longer as capital; is no longer capable of rendering service to production, or at least not the same service, nor to the same sort of production.
Page 147 - Capital which in this manner fulfils the whole of its office in the production in which it is engaged, by a single use, is called Circulating Capital.