A defence of our laws against usury; by the author of The Bank of England defended1826 - 29 páginas |
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Página 22 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Página 22 - ... unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thine hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.
Página 21 - If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Página 9 - HTe can be enlarged, other than by accelerating the increase of capital as compared with population, or by retarding the increase of population as compared with capital ; and every scheme for improving...
Página 8 - ... those engaged in manufactures, or in any other department of industry. It is a necessary consequence of this principle, that the amount of subsistence falling to each labourer, or the rate of wages, must depend on the proportion which the whole capital bears to the whole amount of the labouring population. If the amount of capital were increased, without a corresponding increase taking place in the population, a larger share of such capital would fall to each individual, or the rate of wages...
Página 14 - ... disrepute: nobody is ashamed of doing so, nor is it usual so much as to profess to do otherwise. Why a man, who takes as much as he can get, be it six, or seven, or eight, or ten per cent for the use of a sum of money, should be called usurer, should be loaded with an opprobrious name, any more than if he had bought a house with it, and made a proportionable profit by the house, is more than I can see.
Página 9 - The best interests of society require that the rate of wages should be elevated as high as possible — that a taste for comforts and enjoyments should be widely diffused, and, if possible, interwoven with national habits and prejudices.
Página 22 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Página 14 - is, why the legislator should be more anxious to lni.ii the rate of interest one way, than the other ? why he should set his face against the owners of that species of property more than of any other ? why he should make it his business to prevent their getting more than a certain price for the use of it, rather REASONS FOR RESTRAINT. i huii to prevent their getting less 9 why, in short, he...