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... kind . The number and nature of rational wants varies with the climate and the state of civilisation . It may be good to satisfy more and more wants , in proportion as the means of producing useful com- modities are improved . Still it ...
... kind . The number and nature of rational wants varies with the climate and the state of civilisation . It may be good to satisfy more and more wants , in proportion as the means of producing useful com- modities are improved . Still it ...
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... kind cannot be true wealth . If all the money and all the hours of labour which this money remunerates , instead of being devoted , as they now are , to pro- ducing hurtful commodities , were devoted to manu- facturing useful ones , how ...
... kind cannot be true wealth . If all the money and all the hours of labour which this money remunerates , instead of being devoted , as they now are , to pro- ducing hurtful commodities , were devoted to manu- facturing useful ones , how ...
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... kind of climate . In the ages of barbarism nature makes man ; in the ages of civilisation man makes nature . In the course of a generation we have seen the same country , with the same climate , successively occupied by men plunged in ...
... kind of climate . In the ages of barbarism nature makes man ; in the ages of civilisation man makes nature . In the course of a generation we have seen the same country , with the same climate , successively occupied by men plunged in ...
Page 48
... and proscribed persons from every country , victims of every kind of intolerance ; it thus contributed greatly to the prosperity of the united provinces . § 7. The Influence of the Moral Sentiments on the 48 Elements of Political Economy .
... and proscribed persons from every country , victims of every kind of intolerance ; it thus contributed greatly to the prosperity of the united provinces . § 7. The Influence of the Moral Sentiments on the 48 Elements of Political Economy .
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... kind of labour , then , a workman should be employed endowed with the faculties this labour requires . Iron should be forged by strong arms ; a watch spring be constructed by a workman with delicate fingers ; carving in wood be done by ...
... kind of labour , then , a workman should be employed endowed with the faculties this labour requires . Iron should be forged by strong arms ; a watch spring be constructed by a workman with delicate fingers ; carving in wood be done by ...
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