...we now look with comfort and good hope, Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...their fair price, industry and intelligence their natrral reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property,...

...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...by observing strict economy in every department of state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.125 Macaulay's article denounced...

...Macaulay said this about government. He said: Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the Nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending prosperity, and by observing strict economy in every department of the State, let the government do...

...contains the following oft-quoted passage: "Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the Wieser and still more in that of Philippovich this liberalism already included a good deal of argument...

...been carried forward in civilisation Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation . . . by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course,...reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment . . . (Edinburgh Review, 50 (1810-30), 565, Complete Works, vn, p. 501). " This dichotomy, and its...

...carried forward in civilisation ... Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by stricdy confining themselves to their own legitimate duties,...every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest. 9 Malthus's early anxieties about the growth of manufacturing...

...prudence and energy of the people, that England has hitherto been carried forward in civilisation; and it is to the same prudence and the same energy...every department of the state. Let the Government do this — the People will assuredly do the rest. io . Pseudonym of Whig writer whose letters to the...

...pleased Hazlitt as he read the review, with its dismissal of Southey's paternalism, and endorsement of "leaving capital to find its most lucrative course,...reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment." 11 With these phrases still in his ear Hazlitt could write to Napier: "I am not sorry I had not Southey...

...English historian and literary philosopher: Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the Government do this: The people will assuredly do the rest.107 It is interesting that the link between Austrian...

...we now look with comfort and good hope. Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate...every department of the state. Let the government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.24 When Macaulay penned these lines in 1830, most British...