 | Simon Nelson Patten - Economics - 1924 - 416 pages
...Class-conscious Large Sudden Militant Heroic Epoch-making Incremental Persistent Voluntary Material Planless a people, small means do not merely produce small effects, they produce no effects at all." If this be true, then social progress depends upon those epoch-making changes that... | |
 | Henry Pratt Fairchild - Emigration and immigration - 1925 - 544 pages
...emigratJQp upon the population of 3. fynintry- It may be summed up in the words of John Stuart Mill, "When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means dp not merely produce small effects, they produce jio effects at all." There is no lack of authoritative... | |
 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 954 pages
...some time to make their influence felt. And hence JS Mill has argued (bk. it ch. xiii. § 4) that, "when the object is to raise the permanent condition...generation as indigence is now, nothing is accomplished." In a similar way General Walker has shown (Wages Question, ch. iv.) that, if through some sudden mischance... | |
 | Frank X. Ryan - Philosophy - 2001 - 246 pages
...steady changes that lead to regular progress. A much-quoted statement from Mill represents this view: "When the object is to raise the permanent condition...not merely produce small effects, they produce no effects at all." If this be true, then social progress depends upon those epoch-making changes that... | |
 | Kenneth Thompson - History - 2005 - 480 pages
...emigration upon the population of a country. It may be summed up in the words of John Stuart Mill, "When the object is to raise the permanent condition...not merely produce small effects, they produce no effects at all." There is no lack of authoritative opinions to support this view. In addition to those... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 2006 - 477 pages
...their children in a degree of comfort and independence to which they have hitherto been strangers. When the object is to raise the permanent condition...indigence is now, nothing is accomplished; and feeble half measures do but fritter away resources, far better reserved until the improvement of public opinion... | |
 | Université libre de Bruxelles. Institut de sociologie - Social sciences - 1913 - 428 pages
...changes that lead to regular progress. A much-quoted statement from MILL represents this view : « When the object is to » raise the permanent condition...' « merely produce small effects, they produce no effects at all. » If this is true, then social progress depends upon those epochmaking changes that... | |
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When the object is to raise the permanent condition of a people, small means do not merely produce small effects, they produce no effect at all. 
