Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, Volume 5H. Holt, 1875 - History |
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Page 148 - But there appears to be no country inhabited by an Aryan race in which traces do not remain of the ancient periodical redistribution.
Page 51 - The real limit to the rise is the practical consideration, how much would ruin him, or drive him to abandon the business : not the inexorable limits of the wages-fund.
Page 147 - The ancient Teutonic cultivating community " (p. 78), " as it existed in Germany itself, appears to have been thus organised. It consisted of a number of families, standing in a proprietary relation to a district divided into three parts. These three portions were the Mark of the Township or Village, the Common Mark or waste, and the Arable Mark or cultivated area. The community nhabited the village, held the Common Mark in mixed ownership, and cultivated the Arable Mark in lots appropriated to the...
Page 47 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour. This sum is not regarded as unalterable, for it is augmented by saving, and increases with the progress of wealth ; but it is reasoned upon as at any given moment a predetermined amount.
Page 136 - What means, then, are there of reconciling, in the greatest practicable degree, the inviolability of treaties and the sanctity of national faith, with the undoubted fact that treaties are not always fit to be kept, while, yet those who have imposed them upon others weaker than themselves are not likely, if they retain confidence in their own strength, to grant a release from them?
Page 173 - I found no basis prepared ; no models to copy. . . . Mine is the first step, and therefore a small one, though worked out with much thought and hard labor. It must be looked at as a first step and judged with indulgence.
Page 148 - The fields under tillage were not however cultivated by labour in common. Each householder has his own family lot in each of the three fields, and this he tills by his own labour, and that of his sons and his slaves. But he cannot cultivate as he pleases.
Page 279 - ... property which a person has in things that he himself has made. There is property in what one has received as a recompense for making something for somebody else, or for doing any service to somebody else, among which services must be reckoned that of lending to him what one has made, or honestly come by. There is property in what has been freely given to one, during life or at death, by the person who made it or honestly came by it, whatever may have been the motive of the...
Page 282 - ... to whose rights he has succeeded, and the justification of private ownership of land being the interest it gives to the owner in the good cultivation of the land, the rights of the owner ought not to be stretched further than this purpose requires. No rights to the land should be recognised which do not act as a motive to the person who has power over it to make it as productive or otherwise as useful to mankind as possible. Anything beyond this exceeds the reason of the case and is an injustice...
Page 133 - ... that relative strength remained the same. But as fast as any alteration took place in these elements, the powers, one after another, without asking leave, threw off, and were allowed with impunity to throw off, such of the obligations of the treaties as were distasteful to them, and not sufficiently important to the others to be worth a fight. The general opinion sustained some of those violations as being perfectly right; and even those which were disapproved were not regarded as justifying...