The Development of English Thought: A Study in the Economic Interpretation of HistoryMacmillan Company, 1899 - 415 páginas |
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acquired activity Adam Smith æsthetic aroused attitude became become Calvinists cause century changes character Christ Church civilization clingers concept concrete created curve deductive deductive reasoner deists doctrine dominant earlier economic conditions economists effects elements emphasized England English thought environment epoch essay evils excited facts favour feeling force foreign France German harmony Hobbes Hume ideas importance increase industrial influence instincts James Mill labour Locke Locke's logic Mandeville matters ment mental method Mill Mill's moral motives motor reactions mugwump natural theologians nomic objects overnutrition pain passions peculiar philosophy Physiocrats picture pleasures political economy present primitive principle principle of indifference progress Protestantism psychic Puritans race ideals reasoning religion religious result Ricardo sensory sensual sensualists Smith society sociocracy stalwarts standards struggle surplus tendencies theory tion Utopia Utopists vice wealth Wealth of Nations Wesley wheat women wrath writers
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Página 215 - We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men's behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.
Página 335 - The laws and conditions of the Production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them.
Página 316 - He was not insensible to pleasures; but he deemed very few of them worth the price which, at least in the present state of society, must be paid for them.
Página 148 - Let us return again to the state of nature, and consider men as if but even now sprung out of the earth, and suddenly (like mushrooms) come to full maturity, without all kind of engagement to each other.
Página 341 - Those parts of my writings, and especially of the Political Economy, which contemplate possibilities in the future such as, when affirmed by socialists, have in general been fiercely denied by political economists, would, but for her, either have been absent, or the suggestions would have been made much more timidly and in a more qualified form. But while she thus rendered me bolder in speculation on human affairs, her practical turn of mind, and her almost unerring estimate of practical obstacles,...
Página 164 - That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads men of sincerity blindfold from common sense, will, when examined, be found to be what we are speaking of ; some independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are by education, custom and the constant din of their party, so coupled in their minds, that they always appear there together...
Página 347 - I said about his instinct for arresting exceptions : it was as though he were charged with theorising power ready to flow into any channel on the slightest disturbance, so that no fact, however small, could avoid releasing a stream of theory, and thus the fact became magnified into importance.
Página 323 - The science which traces the laws of such of the phenomena of society as arise from the combined operations of mankind for the production of wealth, in so far as those phenomena are not modified by the pursuit of any other object.
Página 215 - It is sufficient for my purpose, if I have made it appear, that, in the production and conduct of the passions, there is a Certain regular mechanism, which is susceptible of as ao* curate a disquisition, as the laws of motion, optics, hydrestatics, or any part of natural philosophy.
Página 176 - there is nothing in the Gospel contrary to reason "; and in the second, Matthew Tindal asserted that " the Gospel is merely a republication of the religion of nature.