 This is quite consistent with the fact, which we all lament, that there is a residuum still unimproved, but apparently a smaller residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that...  Economic Tracts - Pagina 71883Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1884 - 844 pagini
...residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...desiring something like a revolution for the better."! * Surely a statistician should eschew such adverbs, so sorely reprobated in writers like Mr. George.... | |
 | 1883 - 856 pagini
...residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...is made with the former state of things — must be recognised. Discontent with the present must not make us forget that things have been so much worse.... | |
 | Robert Giffen - 1884 - 72 pagini
...residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...is made with the former state of things — must be recognised. Discontent with the present must not make us forget that things have been so much worse.... | |
 | 1884 - 842 pagini
...residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...without desiring something like a revolution for the better."t Facts are stubborn things but they are also very treacherous things, whether they are stated... | |
 | 1884 - 838 pagini
...residuum, both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago ; and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...small. No one can contemplate the condition of the massesof the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better."! * Surely a statistician... | |
 | 1906 - 1160 pagini
...PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY THE FABIAN SOCIETY. "No one can contemplate the present condition of the massts of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better " (Sir R. GlFFBN, " Euays in Finance," vol. ii., p. 393). TENTH EDITION (REVISED). H!TH THOUSAND. PRICE... | |
 | John A. Bliss - 1886 - 72 pagini
...manipulation of these figures, right or wrongEven the optimistic Mr. Griffin is forced to confess, ' No one can contemplate the condition of the masses...desiring something like a revolution for the better. ' One has but to study the development of New York to realize the truth of the matter. Millionaires... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 994 pagini
...residuum both in proportion to the population and absolutely, than was the case fifty years ago, and with the fact that the improvement, measured even...is made with the former state of things — must be recognised." The total incomes of the Prussian population amounted to 392 millions sterling in 1876,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1890 - 524 pagini
...conservative Mr. R. Giffen, in words which have raised unceasing echoes, " can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better." And certainly if, as is stated, the present Individualist methods of holding capital, purchasing labour,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 368 pagini
...of his Essays on Finance. "No one," this eminent statistician judges, "can contemplate the present condition of the masses of the people, without desiring something like a revolution for the better." What then is the true remedy ? Socialism professes to offer one. Let us see what it really amounts... | |
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