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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Page 55
... wealth and local standing , would be about as sensible a proceeding as to pay equal sums to the skilled cabinetmaker and the joiner's apprentice . The notion is preposterous and ridiculous . And yet if members are to be paid out of the ...
... wealth and local standing , would be about as sensible a proceeding as to pay equal sums to the skilled cabinetmaker and the joiner's apprentice . The notion is preposterous and ridiculous . And yet if members are to be paid out of the ...
Page 66
... wealth that those who have shall contribute something towards the maintenance of the utterly destitute . Some contend that the levying of a poor - rate is in response to a legal and moral claim on the part of the poorest section of the ...
... wealth that those who have shall contribute something towards the maintenance of the utterly destitute . Some contend that the levying of a poor - rate is in response to a legal and moral claim on the part of the poorest section of the ...
Page 70
... wealth . That is the trump card in the game . Hitherto , the part of the Conservative has been to throw obstacles in the path of the Radical charioteer , while the Whig has taken his seat on the box and hampered the driver's movements ...
... wealth . That is the trump card in the game . Hitherto , the part of the Conservative has been to throw obstacles in the path of the Radical charioteer , while the Whig has taken his seat on the box and hampered the driver's movements ...
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... wealth so intercepted have fructified at a greater rate in the hands of the people than on the fields of the land- lords ? There is at least this to be said , the capital which is invested by the private enterprise of the people does ...
... wealth so intercepted have fructified at a greater rate in the hands of the people than on the fields of the land- lords ? There is at least this to be said , the capital which is invested by the private enterprise of the people does ...
Page 99
... wealth contained in the State . " And Chancellor Walworth says : " All separate interests . of individuals in property are held of the Government , and not- withstanding the grant to individuals , the eminent domain , the highest and ...
... wealth contained in the State . " And Chancellor Walworth says : " All separate interests . of individuals in property are held of the Government , and not- withstanding the grant to individuals , the eminent domain , the highest and ...
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Page 117 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
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.
Page 11 - Certain interests are common to all parts of a nation, such as the enactment of its general laws and the maintenance of its foreign relations. Other interests are peculiar to certain parts of the nation, such, for instance, as the business of the several townships.
Page 126 - Austin avoided this mistake, but perhaps in defining property as " a right over a determinate thing, indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition, and unlimited in point of duration...