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Page xvi
... direct social aid , but with some help to his labour by a small accumulation of former industry . We have instances on record of this next state . In the year 1681 , a Moskito Indian was left by accident on the island of Juan Fernandez ...
... direct social aid , but with some help to his labour by a small accumulation of former industry . We have instances on record of this next state . In the year 1681 , a Moskito Indian was left by accident on the island of Juan Fernandez ...
Page xvi
... direct his labour , 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 ...
... direct his labour , 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 ...
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... direct his industry as he pleases , uncontrolled by the rights of other men . He must accumulate stores of covering and of shelter . He must have a hut and a bed of skins , which are all accumulations , or capital . He must , further ...
... direct his industry as he pleases , uncontrolled by the rights of other men . He must accumulate stores of covering and of shelter . He must have a hut and a bed of skins , which are all accumulations , or capital . He must , further ...
Page 11
... direct , although it is incom- parably more rapid . But , however the system of exchange be carried on , -- whether the value of the things exchanged be determined by barter or by a price in money , -- all the exchangers are benefited ...
... direct , although it is incom- parably more rapid . But , however the system of exchange be carried on , -- whether the value of the things exchanged be determined by barter or by a price in money , -- all the exchangers are benefited ...
Page 19
... direct attention to some few particulars , which appeared to us strikingly to illustrate some of the positions which we desire to enforce , by thus exhibiting their prac- tical operation . The country in which this man lived so many ...
... direct attention to some few particulars , which appeared to us strikingly to illustrate some of the positions which we desire to enforce , by thus exhibiting their prac- tical operation . The country in which this man lived so many ...
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