 | 1848 - 558 pages
...fitting, indeed, is it, that while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible the universal object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be...the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the struggle for riches, as they were... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...bounties and man's productions, " that while no one shall be poor, no one shall desire to be richer, nor fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."* The events of ages work themselves into fixity—'there is a justice beneath the skies : assure thyself... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1852 - 608 pages
...fitting, indeed, is it, that while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible the universal object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be...the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the struggle for riches, as they were... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...bounties and man's productions, "that while no one shall be poor, no one shall desire to be richer, nor fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."* The events of ages work themselves into fixity— there is a justice beneath the skies : assure thyself... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 492 pages
...bounties and man's productions, "that while no one shall be poor, no one shall desire to be richer, nor fear being thrust back by the efforts of others to push themselves forward."* The events of ages work themselves into fixity— there is a justice beneath the skies: assure thyself... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...fitting indeed is it, that while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible, the universal object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be open to all, without favour or pnrtiality. But the best state for human nature, is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 628 pages
...fitting, indeed, is it, that while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible the universal object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be...the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the struggle for riches, as they were... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophy, Ancient - 1865 - 640 pages
...Political Economy, Book iv. cap. 6. Ho says (s. 2, p. 319; :—"The best state for human nature is that iu which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be...richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back by tlie efforts of others to push themselves forward." This would come near to the views of Plato and... | |
 | England - 1866 - 908 pages
...Most fitting indeed it is while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible the universal obj ambition, the path to its attainment should be open to all, without favour partiality. But the best state of human nature is that in which, while no is poor, no one desires to... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1868 - 622 pages
...fitting, indeed, is it, that while riches are power, and to grow as rich as possible the universal object of ambition, the path to its attainment should be...the efforts of others to push themselves forward. That the energies of mankind should be kept in employment by the straggle for riches, as they were... | |
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