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Never wholly separate in your mind the merits of any political question from the men who are concerned in it . ' As Burke disliked abstract rights , so he was suspicious of blueprints for a new constitution , because , as he wrote ...
Never wholly separate in your mind the merits of any political question from the men who are concerned in it . ' As Burke disliked abstract rights , so he was suspicious of blueprints for a new constitution , because , as he wrote ...
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Ricardo was more directly concerned with the development of industrial capitalism , Malthus with the preservation of the social structure as it then existed . Ricardo sought to reduce political economy to a science , while Malthus was ...
Ricardo was more directly concerned with the development of industrial capitalism , Malthus with the preservation of the social structure as it then existed . Ricardo sought to reduce political economy to a science , while Malthus was ...
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He was deeply concerned at its unhealthy aspects , in particular the growth of a superstitious belief that Providence was always at hand to punish men for every petty offence , so that a clergyman dropped dead when playing cards , and a ...
He was deeply concerned at its unhealthy aspects , in particular the growth of a superstitious belief that Providence was always at hand to punish men for every petty offence , so that a clergyman dropped dead when playing cards , and a ...
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Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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