Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities, Volum 2S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1897 - 1130 pàgines |
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Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership ..., Volum 2 Edith Jemima Simcox Visualització completa - 1894 |
Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership ..., Volum 2 Edith Jemima Simcox Visualització completa - 1897 |
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Pàgina 51 - If the axes and bills en'ter the hill-forests (only) at the proper times, the wood will be more than can be used. When the grain and fish and turtles are more than can be eaten, and there is more wood than can be used, this enables the people...
Pàgina 82 - A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
Pàgina 86 - Ministers will serve their sovereign for the profit of which they cherish the thought ; sons will serve their fathers, and younger brothers will serve their elder brothers, from the same...
Pàgina 33 - There is a great course also for the production of wealth. Let the producers be many and the consumers few. Let there be activity in the production, and economy in the expenditure. Then the wealth will always be sufficient.
Pàgina 226 - And if any Baron, or any one else soever, hath need of gold or silver or gems or pearls, in order to make plate, or girdles, or the like, he goes to the Mint and buys as much as he list, paying in this...
Pàgina 35 - For regulating the lands, there is no better system than that of mutual aid, and none which is not better than that of taxing. By the tax system, the regular amount was fixed by taking the average of several years. In good years, when the grain lies about in abundance, much might be taken without its being oppressive, and the actual exaction would be small. But in bad years, the produce being not sufficient to repay the manuring of the fields, this system still requires the taking of the full amount.
Pàgina 392 - There is such a thing,' says Chuang Tzu, 'as leaving mankind alone; there has never been such a thing as governing mankind.' All modes of government are wrong. They are unscientific, because they seek to alter the natural environment of man...
Pàgina 226 - Furthermore all merchants arriving from India or other countries, and bringing with them gold or silver or gems and pearls, are prohibited from selling to any one but the Emperor. He has twelve experts chosen for this business, men of shrewdness and experience in such affairs ; these appraise the articles, and the Emperor then pays a liberal price for them in those pieces of paper. The merchants accept his price readily, for in the first place they would not get so good an one from anybody else,...
Pàgina 34 - The people are the most important element in a nation ; the spirits of the land and grain are the next ; the sovereign is the lightest.
Pàgina 258 - So he branded them, and clipped them, and pared their hoofs, and put halters on them, tying them up by the head and shackling them by the feet, and disposing them in stables, with the result that two or three in every ten died. Then he kept...