 | 1848 - 594 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations ; because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...therefore inseparably mixed up in the consideration of it. It reasons, and as we contend, must necessarily reason, from assumptions, not from facts. It is built... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1905 - 662 pages
...wealth, namely, aversion to labor, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences. . . . Political economy considers mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth." This statement was made in 1844. Prof. John K. Ingram, in 1879, called this a vicious abstraction,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pages
...These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like ottr other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...acquiring and consuming wealth ; [and aims at showing n" what is the course of action into which mankind, living in a state of I society, would be impelled,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 546 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, lie our other desires, occasionally conflict with the...at showing what is the course of action into which luwkind, living in a state of society, would be impelled, if that motive, except in the degree in which... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1872 - 500 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...but accompany it always as a drag or impediment, and therefore inseparably mixed up in the consideration of it. Political economy considers mankind as occupied... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 208 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...inseparably mixed up in the consideration of it. Political Eee»emy..c.Qnsiders mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth ; and aims at s~faowing... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 432 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...Political Economy considers mankind as occupied solely l in acquiring and consuming wealth." But thus to frame a system of economics upon the assumption of... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 440 pages
...indulgences. These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these dc not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...Political Economy considers mankind as occupied solely 1 in acquiring and consuming wealth." But thus to frame a system of economics upon the assumption of... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1876 - 436 pages
...occupied in acquiring and consuming wealth," the statement would have been unexceptionable. But if " Political economy considers mankind as occupied solely in acquiring and consuming wealth," Political economy considers mankind most falsely ; and the results in economical reasoning of that... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...indulgences. These it takes to a certain extent into its calculation, because these do not merely, like other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit...inseparably mixed up in the consideration of it." Abstraction has here clouded the reasoning of the most celebrated logician of the century. Had Mr.... | |
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These it takes, to a certain extent, into its calculations, because these do not merely, like our other desires, occasionally conflict with the pursuit of wealth, but accompany it always as a drag or impediment, and are therefore inseparably mixed up... 
