 It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much.  The Contemporary Review - Page 7621882Full view - About this book
 | Henry George - 1926 - 602 pages
...distribution of wealth does not aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it be somewhat earlier felt. It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase...mankind calls into existence bring with them hands. Tha new mouths require as much food as the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. If all instruments... | |
 | Robert Bird Kerr - 1927 - 128 pages
...less drastic means, then let us welcome those means. 44 CHAPTER IV. SOME COMMON OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. " It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase...the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much." — JOHN STUART MILL. AS the whole population problem turns on the Law of Diminishing Return, I shall... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver, Hugh Wetzel Lester - 1928 - 456 pages
...niggardliness of nature, not the injustice of society, is the cause of the penalty attached to overpopulation It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase...people and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if in a society thus constituted industry were as energetic and the produce as ample... | |
 | 1916 - 1274 pages
...have more men of the Brandeis type in our courts, and we will have fewer miscarriages of justice. // all instruments of production were held in joint property...people, and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if, in a society thus constituted, industry were as energetic an<? the produce as ample... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - 1964 - 480 pages
...mouth God sends a pair of hands," might be brought up against an opponent of propagation, he says : " It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase...the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much " (Principles, ed. Ashley, p. 191). Increase, Mill thought, would do no harm in some very early stage... | |
 | 1883 - 602 pages
...be somewhat earlier felt. It is in vain to say that all mouths which the increase of mankind brings into existence bring with them hands. The new mouths...the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. ' All this,' says Mr. George, ' I deny. I assert that the very reverse of these propositions is true.... | |
 | Miroslav Jovanovic - 1998 - 834 pages
...TACKLING THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION PROBLEM KF Zimmermann As John Stuart Mill (1848 [1965], p. 191) suggested, '[I]t is in vain to say, that all mouths which the...the old ones, and the hands do not produce as much . . . .' This image seem to apply in many current evaluations of European immigration. In the face... | |
 | Henry George - 2005 - 421 pages
...of wealth does not aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt. It is m vain to say that all mouths which the increase of...people, and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if in a society thus constituted, industry were as energetic and the produce as ample... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 477 pages
...distribution of wealth does not even aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes it to be somewhat earlier felt. It is in vain to say, that all mouths which the increase...people, and the produce divided with perfect equality among them, and if in a society thus constituted, industry were as energetic and the produce as ample... | |
 | Henry George - 2006 - 421 pages
...of wealth does not aggravate the evil, but, at most, causes It to be somewhat earlier felt. It is hi vain to say that all mouths which the increase of...old ones, and the hands do not produce as much. If ail instruments of production were held in joint property by the whole people, and the produce divided... | |
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