 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...pure political economy affords — that he gives that well grounded feeling of command over the principles of the subject for purposes of practice, owing... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Christian socialism - 1851 - 122 pages
...preface to his work, that, " except in matters of detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." Choose, therefore, we say, between the science such as it is, confessing its own limited nature by... | |
 | Thomas Taylor Meadows - China - 1856 - 754 pages
...branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...because Adam Smith never loses sight of this truth ; becauso in his applications of Political Economy, he perpetually appeals to other and often far larger... | |
 | Thomas Taylor Meadows - 1856 - 746 pages
...branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...being decided on economical premises alone. And it ia because Adam Smith never loses sight of this truth ; because in his applications of Political Economy,... | |
 | Friedrich List - Economics - 1856 - 524 pages
...of social philosophy. Except in matters of mere detail, there are, perhaps, no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." JS Mill thinks it is because Adam Smith never loses sight of this truth, but always blended his applications... | |
 | Friedrich List - Economics - 1856 - 554 pages
...philosophy. Except in matters of mere detail, there are, perhaps, no practical questions, even among thosa which approach nearest to the character of purely...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." JS Mill thinks it is because Adam Smith never loses sight of this truth, but always blended his applications... | |
 | Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland - Ireland - 1876 - 574 pages
...branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." This is true ; but it is only part of the truth. For purposes of theory as well as of practice, the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1866 - 628 pages
...branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...gives that well-grounded feeling of command over the vi PREFACE. principles of the subject for purposes of practice, owing to which the " Wealth of Nations,"... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1867 - 104 pages
...of social philosophy. Except in matters of mere detail, there are, perhaps, no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." JS Mill thinks it is because Adam Smith never loses sight of this truth, but always blended his applications... | |
 | 1914 - 1248 pages
...philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even amongst those which approach nearest to the character of purely...admit of being decided on economical premises alone." It is not surprising, therefore, to find that Mill in all his writings, and he was voluminous, emphasized... | |
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For practical purposes, political economy is inseparably intertwined with many other branches of social philosophy. Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character of... 
