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Page 113
... raw material needed for home industry . " Let us see what this means , beginning with the exempted raw materials . Every one would admit that coal is a raw material , and as it is the source of all machine power , not even a fair trader ...
... raw material needed for home industry . " Let us see what this means , beginning with the exempted raw materials . Every one would admit that coal is a raw material , and as it is the source of all machine power , not even a fair trader ...
Page 131
... raw material into a useful product , while labour has been getting 90 per cent . Of the 10 per cent . which goes to the capitalist only from 5 to 6 can be put to profit , the rest going to the wear and tear of plant and machinery ...
... raw material into a useful product , while labour has been getting 90 per cent . Of the 10 per cent . which goes to the capitalist only from 5 to 6 can be put to profit , the rest going to the wear and tear of plant and machinery ...
Page 134
... raw material and the representative value in money of the labour , skilled and unskilled , used and directed by capital to convert the crude material into a finished product . These factors still rule production , but their relative ...
... raw material and the representative value in money of the labour , skilled and unskilled , used and directed by capital to convert the crude material into a finished product . These factors still rule production , but their relative ...
Page 135
Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair. first the source of power , the second the material for strength . The value of raw material in industry is now the lowest factor of production , while the value of intellect in converting it into a utility ...
Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair. first the source of power , the second the material for strength . The value of raw material in industry is now the lowest factor of production , while the value of intellect in converting it into a utility ...
Page 140
... raw material was represented by a very simple equation - P = L + C . The product equals labour plus capital . The equation never was right , because capital is really accumulated potential labour reserved as a subsistence fund for the ...
... raw material was represented by a very simple equation - P = L + C . The product equals labour plus capital . The equation never was right , because capital is really accumulated potential labour reserved as a subsistence fund for the ...
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Page 228 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 20 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne ; But tell me, Nymphs ! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? ON MY JOYFUL DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME CITY.
Page 40 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 240 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 222 - ... reveals himself in parents, teachers, superiors. Then comes the second; Reverence for what is Under us. Those hands folded over the back, and as it were tied together; that down-turned smiling look, announce that we are to regard the earth with attention and cheerfulness: from the bounty of the earth we are nourished: the earth affords unutterable joys ; but disproportionate sorrows she also brings us.
Page 8 - And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke therewith. The which smell when the evil spirit had smelled, he fled into the utmost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
Page 13 - And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Page 264 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 223 - Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma. Her youthful days are over, and her face hath become wrinkled and tetrick. She poreth not upon the heavens, astronomy is dead unto her, and knowledge maketh other cycles.
Page 161 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.