Social Equality: A Short Study in a Missing ScienceG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882 - 212 páginas |
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... propositions . The propositions are distinct ; the assertions and the denials are vehement ; but if we ask for their scientific basis , both sides will be equally unable to answer us . Nothing will be forthcoming in the shape of ...
... propositions . The propositions are distinct ; the assertions and the denials are vehement ; but if we ask for their scientific basis , both sides will be equally unable to answer us . Nothing will be forthcoming in the shape of ...
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... proposition , that the perfection of society involves social equality . Let us be careful to see what the words exactly mean . They do not mean that equality is the same thing as perfection - for equality in itself might be merely ...
... proposition , that the perfection of society involves social equality . Let us be careful to see what the words exactly mean . They do not mean that equality is the same thing as perfection - for equality in itself might be merely ...
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... proposition as to what is , and as to what will be . We have a proposition which can be proved to be either false or true , or , at all events , shown to have some D 2 THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN DEMOCRACY . 35.
... proposition as to what is , and as to what will be . We have a proposition which can be proved to be either false or true , or , at all events , shown to have some D 2 THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN DEMOCRACY . 35.
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... proposition as to the possibility of producing equality is nothing more or less than a deduction from this . reasoning runs thus : Laws and forms of government represent some deliberate human purpose ; this purpose hitherto has been ...
... proposition as to the possibility of producing equality is nothing more or less than a deduction from this . reasoning runs thus : Laws and forms of government represent some deliberate human purpose ; this purpose hitherto has been ...
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... proposition about wealth . It is a proposition , in fact , about the cause of the distribution of it , and it declares this to be laws and forms of government . Now , one thing is plain . Whether or no laws and forms of government are ...
... proposition about wealth . It is a proposition , in fact , about the cause of the distribution of it , and it declares this to be laws and forms of government . Now , one thing is plain . Whether or no laws and forms of government are ...
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action already altogether amongst barouche Buckle Cæsar cause of wealth certainly chemist cinder-sifter civilisation Columbus connected consider Democrats depends desire for inequality desire for social developed discovery distinct dition division of labour doctrine doubt duction economists existing external circumstances fact falsehood generalisation George Eliot graduation of labour happiness Herbert Spencer hitherto human character human nature inquiry kind less lives Louis Blanc luxury man's manual labour material matter means ment merely modern democracy motive never observation once plain plainly political economist possible practical present principles produce productive labour proposition Proudhon prove question racter Radical reader reason recognise regard result rich science of character scientific simply skilled labour slave social equality social inequality society speak Spencer statement Study of Sociology suppose theory thing thought tion true truth unequal Walter Press wholly wish words
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Página 217 - THIS DIVISION of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility — the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.
Página 225 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Página 122 - Before he can re-make his society, his society must make him. So that all those changes of which he is the proximate initiator have their chief causes in the generations he descended from.
Página 122 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Página 187 - The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them.
Página 218 - Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire.
Página 102 - That when we perform an action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives; that those motives are the results of some antecedents; and that, therefore, if we were acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws of their movements, we could with unerring certainty predict the whole of their immediate results.
Página 224 - It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.
Página 104 - In a given state of society a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life*. This is the general law, and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends of course upon special laws; which however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate. And the power of the larger law is so irresistible, that neither the love of life nor the fear of another world can avail anything towards even checking its operation.
Página 224 - ... sorts of work, and liberally paid by the piece, their officers have frequently been obliged to stipulate with the undertaker, that they should not be allowed to earn above a certain sum every day, according to the rate at which they were paid. Till this stipulation was made, mutual emulation, and the desire of greater gain, frequently prompted them to overwork themselves, and to hurt their health by excessive labour.