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Page 243 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Page 243 - The whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality.
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Page 242 - All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord.
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Page 242 - In the last part of his lectures, he examined those political regulations which are founded, not upon the principle of justice, but that of expediency, and which are calculated to increase the riches, the power, and the prosperity of a State.
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| Title | The Encyclopędia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Volume 25 The Encyclopędia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Hugh Chisholm |
| Editor | Hugh Chisholm |
| Edition | 11 |
| Publisher | At the University Press, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Jul 2, 2007 |
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