The Enlightenment: The science of freedomKnopf, 1966 - Enlightenment |
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Page 101
... nations of the world travel this circle : to begin with , they are barbarous ; they become conquerors and well - ordered nations ; this order permits them to grow , and they become refined ; refinement enfeebles them , and they return ...
... nations of the world travel this circle : to begin with , they are barbarous ; they become conquerors and well - ordered nations ; this order permits them to grow , and they become refined ; refinement enfeebles them , and they return ...
Page 347
... nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours . Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades , " and so , " commerce ...
... nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours . Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades , " and so , " commerce ...
Page 360
... Nations , part analysis , part prophecy , came at a supremely opportune moment ; it told men what they wanted to hear and needed to know about nascent industrial society . Moreover , as Adam Smith himself candidly acknowledged with his ...
... Nations , part analysis , part prophecy , came at a supremely opportune moment ; it told men what they wanted to hear and needed to know about nascent industrial society . Moreover , as Adam Smith himself candidly acknowledged with his ...
Contents
Progress From Experience to Program | 56 |
The Uses of Nature | 126 |
The Science of Man | 167 |
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