...use the words of Dr Smithj are not only indispensably necessary for the support of life, but which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...creditable people even of the lowest order to be without, consists in this, that the former is altogether a tax on profits, and is entirely paid by the employers...

...luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commo, 4jties which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, Isuppose, very comfortable, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater...

...necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the supT port of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders...life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortable, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe,...

...luxuries. By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortable, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe,...

...will enable the labourer to obtain " not only the commodities that are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." Now it is plain, from this definition, that there neither is nor can be any absolute standard of natural...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, — that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -{• — be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...increased economy ; nor can a rise in the price of necessaries, <— that is, of those commodities " which the custom of the country renders it indecent for...people, even of the lowest order, to be without," -j—be compensated by an immediate corresponding rise of wages. The labourer is, in this respect,...

...the commodities which are indispcnsibly necessary tor the support of life, hut whatever the custom uf the country renders it indecent for creditable people,...in the present times, through the greater part of Kuropc, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear m public without a linen shirt, the want...

...comprise, in the words of Adam Smith, "not only such things as are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...people, even of the lowest order, to be without." The quantity and kind of these things depend, not only on the habits and customs of the people. but...

...rate as may enable them to obtain not only the commodities which are indispensably neceseary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country...creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. In this there is an obvious confusion between cause and effect. Custom renders it discreditable to...