Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... " This was a most unfortunate assumption , for no fact is more palpable than that the standard of happiness is in- finitely variable . In all ages - amongst every people - by each class - do we find different notions of it.
... " This was a most unfortunate assumption , for no fact is more palpable than that the standard of happiness is in- finitely variable . In all ages - amongst every people - by each class - do we find different notions of it.
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... amongst ourselves . To a miserly Elwes the hoard- ing of money was the only enjoyment of life ; but Day , the philanthropic author of " Sandford and Merton , " could find no pleausurable employment save in its distri- bution . Rural ...
... amongst ourselves . To a miserly Elwes the hoard- ing of money was the only enjoyment of life ; but Day , the philanthropic author of " Sandford and Merton , " could find no pleausurable employment save in its distri- bution . Rural ...
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... be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the educated classes mental excitements are taken in excess ; and that were more time given to ( PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED . 17 a proper fulfilment of 16 INTRODUCTION .
... be carried too far . Others again maintain that already amongst the educated classes mental excitements are taken in excess ; and that were more time given to ( PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED . 17 a proper fulfilment of 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... amongst the members , it was clear that the enormous sums pre- viously pocketed by the employers , would be shared amongst the employed , to the great increase of their prosperity . Yet all past attempts to act out this very plausible ...
... amongst the members , it was clear that the enormous sums pre- viously pocketed by the employers , would be shared amongst the employed , to the great increase of their prosperity . Yet all past attempts to act out this very plausible ...
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... amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government ; so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct . Already has it lost something of its importance . The time was when the history of a people was but the history ...
... amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government ; so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct . Already has it lost something of its importance . The time was when the history of a people was but the history ...
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