Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
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... Indian on Juan Fernandez - Conditions necessary for the production of utility . CHAPTER II . Society a system of ... Indians PAGE 1 10 19 CHAPTER IV . The Prodigal - Advantages of the poorest man in civilized life over the richest ...
... Indian on Juan Fernandez - Conditions necessary for the production of utility . CHAPTER II . Society a system of ... Indians PAGE 1 10 19 CHAPTER IV . The Prodigal - Advantages of the poorest man in civilized life over the richest ...
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... Indian on Juan Fernandez- Conditions necessary for the production of utility . LET ET us suppose a man brought up in civilized life , cast upon a desert land - without food , without clothes , without fire , without tools . We see the ...
... Indian on Juan Fernandez- Conditions necessary for the production of utility . LET ET us suppose a man brought up in civilized life , cast upon a desert land - without food , without clothes , without fire , without tools . We see the ...
Page xvi
... Indians , who knew better how to avail themselves of the spontaneous productions around them . But this is not an instance of the continuance of labour in the lowest state of its power . The few individuals , also , who have been found ...
... Indians , who knew better how to avail themselves of the spontaneous productions around them . But this is not an instance of the continuance of labour in the lowest state of its power . The few individuals , also , who have been found ...
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... Indian was left by accident on the island of Juan Fernandez , in the Pacific Ocean ; the English ship in which he was a sailor having been chased off the coast by some hostile Spanish vessels . Captain Dampier describes this man's ...
... Indian was left by accident on the island of Juan Fernandez , in the Pacific Ocean ; the English ship in which he was a sailor having been chased off the coast by some hostile Spanish vessels . Captain Dampier describes this man's ...
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... as all labour is directed even in its highest employment , to the change of form and change of place of the natural supplies by which he was surrounded . He created nothing ; he only CHAP . I. 5 An Indian on Juan Fernandez .
... as all labour is directed even in its highest employment , to the change of form and change of place of the natural supplies by which he was surrounded . He created nothing ; he only CHAP . I. 5 An Indian on Juan Fernandez .
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