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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... owner of the foal . In the vegetable kingdom the difficulties of individuation are considerably greater ; if the rose - tree is an individual , what shall we say to the rose ? Consider the growth of the straw- berry , and of the banyan ...
... owner of the foal . In the vegetable kingdom the difficulties of individuation are considerably greater ; if the rose - tree is an individual , what shall we say to the rose ? Consider the growth of the straw- berry , and of the banyan ...
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... owner- ship of a shield or spear amongst members of the same family . The transaction would be sufficiently notorious . The thing would change hands , and words would be used indicative of the animus of the parties . But in the case of ...
... owner- ship of a shield or spear amongst members of the same family . The transaction would be sufficiently notorious . The thing would change hands , and words would be used indicative of the animus of the parties . But in the case of ...
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... owners to say about the old navigation laws ? necessary to assign instances when there are hundreds in the recollection of all . Something more than mortal , then , will these new masters be , if , for any nobler motive than en ...
... owners to say about the old navigation laws ? necessary to assign instances when there are hundreds in the recollection of all . Something more than mortal , then , will these new masters be , if , for any nobler motive than en ...
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... owner or usufructuary draws thousands a year ? Demonstrate to them that it would be neither wise nor kind to abolish by law the payment of rent . Have you hopelessly watched a crew of stalwart fellows go down on some rotten craft within ...
... owner or usufructuary draws thousands a year ? Demonstrate to them that it would be neither wise nor kind to abolish by law the payment of rent . Have you hopelessly watched a crew of stalwart fellows go down on some rotten craft within ...
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... owners and miners would conspire to blow up the mines ; shipowners would scuttle their ships , drown their crews , get up a glorious reputation for going to the bottom , and pay double insurance ; cabmen would charge at least a guinea a ...
... owners and miners would conspire to blow up the mines ; shipowners would scuttle their ships , drown their crews , get up a glorious reputation for going to the bottom , and pay double insurance ; cabmen would charge at least a guinea a ...
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Page 271 - Therefore before the names of just and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit they expect by the breach of their covenant...
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...
Page 129 - What capital does for production, is to afford the shelter, protection, tools and materials which the work requires, and to feed and otherwise maintain the labourers during the process.
Page 327 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.
Page 40 - Nam cunctas nationes et urbes populus aut primores aut singuli regunt: delecta ex iis et consociata rei publicae forma laudari facilius quam evenire, vel si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest.
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