The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other EssaysB.W. Huebsch, 1919 - Всего страниц: 509 |
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... formulation . It may confidently be said to do so because , for one thing , its argument meets the requirements of modern science . It is such a concept as matter - of - fact science can make effective use of ; it is drawn in terms ...
... formulation . It may confidently be said to do so because , for one thing , its argument meets the requirements of modern science . It is such a concept as matter - of - fact science can make effective use of ; it is drawn in terms ...
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... formulation consist of didactic ex- hortations to thrift , prudence , equanimity , and shrewd management a body of ... formulations of the proc- esses observed ; but at no stage of its growth — at least at no stage hitherto reached ...
... formulation consist of didactic ex- hortations to thrift , prudence , equanimity , and shrewd management a body of ... formulations of the proc- esses observed ; but at no stage of its growth — at least at no stage hitherto reached ...
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... formulations worked out under the guidance of the idle curiosity — which from this epoch is often spoken of as the scientific spirit . The change in question is closely correlated with an analogous change in institutions and habits of ...
... formulations worked out under the guidance of the idle curiosity — which from this epoch is often spoken of as the scientific spirit . The change in question is closely correlated with an analogous change in institutions and habits of ...
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... formulations of scientific re- search the dramatic tone is not wholly lost . The causes at work are conceived in a ... formulation of scientific theories , but the denial is main- tained only at the cost of consistency . Those eminent ...
... formulations of scientific re- search the dramatic tone is not wholly lost . The causes at work are conceived in a ... formulation of scientific theories , but the denial is main- tained only at the cost of consistency . Those eminent ...
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... formulations of worldly wisdom these latter - day theories of the scientists appear highly opaque , impersonal , and matter - of - fact ; but taken by themselves they must be admitted still to show the constraint of the dramatic ...
... formulations of worldly wisdom these latter - day theories of the scientists appear highly opaque , impersonal , and matter - of - fact ; but taken by themselves they must be admitted still to show the constraint of the dramatic ...
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Стр. 114 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Стр. 132 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Стр. 114 - Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to the society.
Стр. 73 - The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area, but leave him intact.
Стр. 203 - The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring," and the later refinements on the theory of value have not set aside this dictum of the ancient authority.
Стр. 117 - If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered. In the political body, however, the wisdom of nature has fortunately made ample provision for remedying many of the bad effects of the folly and injustice of man ; in the same manner as it has done in the natural body, for remedying those of his sloth and intemperance.
Стр. 117 - When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in raising, preparing, and bringing it to market, according to their natural rates, the commodity is then sold for what may be called its natural price.
Стр. 120 - ... /These ordinary or average rates may be called | the natural rates of wages, profit, and rent, at the \time and place in which they commonly prevail. When the price of any commodity is neither more nor less than what is sufficient to pay the rent of the land, the wages of the...
Стр. 128 - Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased...
Стр. 115 - ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.