An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness: Applied to the Newly Proposed System, Voluntary Equality of Wealth (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

William Thompson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0265257077 ISBN 13 : 9780265257074

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness: Applied to the Newly Proposed System, Voluntary Equality of Wealth

Such are the results of the present system upon the three great classes into which Society is usually divided. TO call it Society, indeed, is a solecism, for instead of its bang an union of many for one general interest, his a grotesque assemblage seeking to take advantage of each others Ignorance and helplessness. It is not a wise and scientific association, but a rude unskilful agglomeration; - not a number of atoms brought together as by strong chemical afiinities, and forming a regular and harmonious body, but a number of repulsive particles held together as by mechanical force, and forming an amorphous and dis cordant body -in fine, in the nervous language Of a popular writer of the day, it is not order, but anarchy, - plus a street constable.

But why should such a condition be endured? Shall it be said that, with all our knowledge and experience, a rational system of society, in which the interests and happiness of all shall be carefully combined, is yet un attainable? US there any lack of means - supposing them properly organised - to produce a superabundance Of wealth - that is, the necessaries, comforts, and luxuries of life - for all, with ample leisure for the highest cultivation of the intellectual faculties and moral qualitie the acquisition of the most refined habits and tastes NO one who has any pretensions to knowledge on the subject.

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At that time mens minds were not prepared for its advanced teachings. It was, and still is, avowedly, no part of the object of the class of writers called Political Economists to institute an inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conducive to human happiness. Their conceptions have been by no means so rational, so extended, or so dignified. The accumulation of wealth, or capital, and especially in large masses, has been their primary object. Happiness, with them, has been only secondary. They have contented themselves with developing the laws by which the production and distribution of wealth has been, or is, at present regulated; that is to say, the laws by which the empire of force and fraud has been, or is, maintained; for only under one or other of Mr. Senior, formerly Professor of Political Economy in the 1U niversity of Oxford, says, It is not with happiness, but with wealth, that I am concerned, as a Political Economist; and I am not only justified in omitting, but am perhaps bound to omit, all considerations which have no influence on wealth.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0265257077
• ISBN 13: 9780265257074
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 497
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