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Political economy never rises above the hypothesis of a limited and insufficient supply of the necessities of life; it takes it for granted.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
We thus see that the over-population fallacy does not stand the very first attempt at submitting it to a closer examination.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
The soil was made to such an amount out of forcing beds that every year 250 cubic yards of loam had been sold.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
This is where agriculture is going now.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
And we shall not be the worse for that.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
A great number of the Paris maraîchères... export the whole of their crop to England.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
Our ambition is, that he should produce even more... with less labour, and should enjoy all the joys of human life. And this is fully possible.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)
The resources of science, both in enlarging the circle of our production and in new discoveries, are inexhaustible. And each new branch of activity calls into existence more and more new branches, which steadily increase the power of man over the forces of nature.
Fields, Factories and Workshops (1899)