...nature, but only so far as they depend upon a certain portion of those laws. It is concerned with man solely as a being who desires to possess wealth ;...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit...

...with the title, Principles of Political Economy with tome of ikar Application to Social Philotophy. Third English Edition, 1852. This work will be further..." But there are also certain departments of human affdirs in which the acquisition of wealth is the main and acknowledged end. It is only of these that...

...but a branch of that science. It does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified bv the i/ social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in....comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit...

...whole of man's nature as modified bv the >/ iocial state, nor of the whole conduct of man in 8 ociety. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires...comparative efficacy of means for /obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the f phenomena of the social state as take place in conV. sequence of the...

...stray from it again ? And so vale, Hodge! Political economy, says Mr. Mill, is concerned with man " solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. ... It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive except those which may be regarded...

...stray from it again ? And so vale, Hodge! Political economy, says Mr. Mill, is concerned with man " solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. . . . It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive except those which may be...

...— ' Political Economy is a branch of the science of speculative politics, and is concerned with man as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit...

...fallacy. The truer political economy of to-day is not what Mr. Mill defined it, concerned with man "solely as a being who desires to possess wealth,...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end." * Yet there is probably no country of the world where more than in our own, this economic fallacy holds...

...saying : ' The mercantile system is concerned with man solely as a being who pursues national power, and who is capable of judging of the comparative efficacy of means to that end. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive, except those which...

...this view so clearly that his statement of it is worth quoting at some length : " Political Economy does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified...comparative efficacy of means for obtaining that end. It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit...