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... According to calculations made in the United States , in ten years alcohol imposed on the country a direct expenditure of about 300,000,000 . , and an indirect expenditure of a similar sum . It has sent 100,000 orphans to the asylums ...
... According to calculations made in the United States , in ten years alcohol imposed on the country a direct expenditure of about 300,000,000 . , and an indirect expenditure of a similar sum . It has sent 100,000 orphans to the asylums ...
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... according to the Austrian statistician , von Neumann - Spallart , are annually consumed . The highest part of the human race accordingly spends some 400,000,000l . to poison itself in large or small doses . Women also pay thousands of ...
... according to the Austrian statistician , von Neumann - Spallart , are annually consumed . The highest part of the human race accordingly spends some 400,000,000l . to poison itself in large or small doses . Women also pay thousands of ...
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... According to Adam Smith , the utility of a thing in so far as it serves the need which gave it birth , is its value in use ; its utility , in so far as it serves to procure other objects , is its value in exchange . Value in use will ...
... According to Adam Smith , the utility of a thing in so far as it serves the need which gave it birth , is its value in use ; its utility , in so far as it serves to procure other objects , is its value in exchange . Value in use will ...
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... According to Montesquieu , the Caribbees break down a tree in order to gather its fruit . Here we have improvidence personified . From improvidence spring drunkenness and intemperance ; these destroy at once the fruits of labour and the ...
... According to Montesquieu , the Caribbees break down a tree in order to gather its fruit . Here we have improvidence personified . From improvidence spring drunkenness and intemperance ; these destroy at once the fruits of labour and the ...
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... according to his deserts , rewarding the well - doer , punishing the ill . This principle , in the economical order , leads to the maxim " To every man according to his work . " For this maxim to be applied the law must assure to every ...
... according to his deserts , rewarding the well - doer , punishing the ill . This principle , in the economical order , leads to the maxim " To every man according to his work . " For this maxim to be applied the law must assure to every ...
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Page 259 - ... the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, as far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it...