The Industrial ArmyBaker & Taylor Company, 1896 - 173 Seiten |
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acquired bills buildings bushels capital certificates of deposit CHAPTER civil classes commercial coöperation cost Council demand Department distribution ditions duties economic and locative economic freedom Edward Atkinson elected equal equitable equivalents evolved expense factory fiat money furnish further gold certificates harmony higher I. A. benefits I. A. citizen I. A. obligations I. A. rights increase individual Industrial Army interests John Stuart Mill justice labor land laws legislative bodies less limited locative freedom material mechanism of exchange ment mental methods militant army moral natural laws natural media natural monopolies necessary needy nomic occupations organization phase physical science poll tax population present production profit receive rendered rural homes science of right secondary schools silver social body sociological conditions square miles subsistence subways sufficient sumer supply tion tricity trusts unjust vast vidual wealth wheat
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Seite 38 - They may be naturally arranged into : — 1. those activities which directly minister to self-preservation ; 2. those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation ; 3. those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring ; 4. those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations ; 5. those miscellaneous activities which fill up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification...
Seite 141 - Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, If he kneel not before the same altar with me...
Seite 145 - But, although it may be innocuous, I confess I see very little reason for desiring it. The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of cooperation and of social intercourse, has, in all the more populous countries, been attained.
Seite 146 - Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated...
Seite 146 - ... up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support...
Seite 145 - The density of population necessary to enable mankind .to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of co-operation and of social ^intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries, been attained. A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.
Seite 146 - If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
Seite 146 - Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature...
Seite 111 - They occupy peculiarly favoured spots or lines of land. 3. The article or convenience they supply is used at the place where and in connection with the plant or machinery by which it is supplied. 4. This article or convenience can in general be largely, if not indefinitely, increased, without proportionate increase in plant and capital. 5. Certainty and harmonious arrangement, which can only be attained by unity, are paramount considerations.
Seite 146 - A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor" ideal Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.