Industrial LibertyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 414 pages |
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Page iii
... evils of our time , and to measure , by fundamental rules , the departure , in some of our governmental and industrial methods , from these principles . Where it has been necessary to employ concrete illustrations , I have endeavored ...
... evils of our time , and to measure , by fundamental rules , the departure , in some of our governmental and industrial methods , from these principles . Where it has been necessary to employ concrete illustrations , I have endeavored ...
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... evil should be put an end to , then there is no ethical warrant for these actions by which life is maintained : the whole question drops . But if we adopt either the optimist view or the meliorist view - if we say that life on the whole ...
... evil should be put an end to , then there is no ethical warrant for these actions by which life is maintained : the whole question drops . But if we adopt either the optimist view or the meliorist view - if we say that life on the whole ...
Page 52
... ignore the underlying and more important fact that an enormous evil has arisen from this dif ference by reason of the misuse of the power which controls the new convenience . A true regard for values 52 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
... ignore the underlying and more important fact that an enormous evil has arisen from this dif ference by reason of the misuse of the power which controls the new convenience . A true regard for values 52 INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY.
Page 54
... evil ; and the relief to society from the untoward results would seem to lie in a careful cor- rection of these causes . It is with this phase of the subject , rather than with the statistics directly , that I have to deal ; and the ...
... evil ; and the relief to society from the untoward results would seem to lie in a careful cor- rection of these causes . It is with this phase of the subject , rather than with the statistics directly , that I have to deal ; and the ...
Page 55
... evils , but they do not themselves fully ac- count for the origin of those evils . There are evil incidents which come directly from them , and it is only in this sense that we call them causes . When we perceive that back of them are ...
... evils , but they do not themselves fully ac- count for the origin of those evils . There are evil incidents which come directly from them , and it is only in this sense that we call them causes . When we perceive that back of them are ...
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Page 162 - Commission (and produce books and papers if so ordered) and give evidence touching the matter in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof.
Page 162 - Any of the district courts of the United States within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on...
Page 162 - The claim that any such testimony or evidence may tend to criminate the person giving such evidence shall not excuse such witness from testifying; but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding.
Page 22 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Page 99 - Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Page 41 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom...
Page 337 - ... one of the powers belonging to sovereignty in other civilized nations, and not expressly withheld from Congress by the Constitution; we are irresistibly impelled...
Page 41 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Page 4 - He was greater as an opponent of tyranny than as a deviser of liberties; the fetters imposed on royal autocracy, cumbrous and entangled as they were, seem to have been an integral part of his policy ; the means he took for admitting the nation to self-government wear very much the form of an occasional or party expedient, which a longer tenure of undivided power might have led him either to develop or to discard.
Page 9 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.