Social Equality: a Short Study in a Missing ScienceR. Bentley & Sons, 1882 - 274 páginas |
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... INEQUALITY AND MATERIAL PROGRESS . • 160 t • • 182 IX INEQUALITY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF CIVILISATION . • X. INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS . 215 250 SOCIAL EQUALITY . CHAPTER I. THE AIM OF MODERN DEMOCRACY. 9796.
... INEQUALITY AND MATERIAL PROGRESS . • 160 t • • 182 IX INEQUALITY AND THE MAINTENANCE OF CIVILISATION . • X. INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL PROGRESS . 215 250 SOCIAL EQUALITY . CHAPTER I. THE AIM OF MODERN DEMOCRACY. 9796.
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... social inequalities ; but they are alone in even claiming to have studied them scientifically , or pronounced any reasoned opi- nion with regard to their origin , their justice , or their stability . Thus the present struggle , 1 ...
... social inequalities ; but they are alone in even claiming to have studied them scientifically , or pronounced any reasoned opi- nion with regard to their origin , their justice , or their stability . Thus the present struggle , 1 ...
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... social status , social inequality , in its very nature , implies unhappiness some- where . It is , in a word , identical with social wrong . Accordingly , the end of progress being the diffusion of human happiness , progress is es ...
... social status , social inequality , in its very nature , implies unhappiness some- where . It is , in a word , identical with social wrong . Accordingly , the end of progress being the diffusion of human happiness , progress is es ...
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... social inequality . It is designed to inform the masses , not how near they are to misery , but how far they are from splendour ; and its immediate tendency is to excite the wish in them not to raise themselves , but to humble others ...
... social inequality . It is designed to inform the masses , not how near they are to misery , but how far they are from splendour ; and its immediate tendency is to excite the wish in them not to raise themselves , but to humble others ...
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... inequality may have caricatured itself , as in the case of the Asiatic despotisms ; in others it may have disguised itself , as in the case of the Italian or Greek republics . But it has always been present wherever civilisation . has ...
... inequality may have caricatured itself , as in the case of the Asiatic despotisms ; in others it may have disguised itself , as in the case of the Italian or Greek republics . But it has always been present wherever civilisation . has ...
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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 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 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 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 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 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 114 - ... assemblages will differ in their characters in proportion as the component individuals of the one differ from those of the other. Yet when this, which is almost a truism, has been admitted, it cannot be denied that in every community there is a group of phenomena growing naturally out of the phenomena presented by its members — a set of properties in the aggregate determined by the sets of properties in the units ; and that...
Página 42 - Party was set forth as follows: 1. Labour is the source of all wealth and all culture, and as useful work in general is possible only through society, so to society, that is to all its members, the entire product belongs; while as the obligation to labour is universal, all have an equal right to such product, each one according to his reasonable needs. In "the existing society the instruments...