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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

... discover cheap, loyal servants of the old type, to discover six per cent. investments without risk, to interest influential connections in the prospe... ...istinguishable from this, a family with seven or eight hundred a year from investments, which derives from the middle class, the tradi- tion is one th... ... a whole, quite incapable of doing, and to point to the really responsible agencies in each case. Now, firstly, with regard to all that the schoolmast... ...nough, add that whatever is attempted can be done far better through other agencies. More or less unknown to teachers there exists a considerable amou... ...include that as an ingre- dient. But the intention is to express all those agencies (other than political, social, and economic forces, and the sugges... ...older. The general innervation of society with books and book distributing agencies would be followed by the linking up of the now almost isolated men...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...e Enemy of mankind or to a company obliged to pur- chase, these pernicious agencies must be made to pay a very high price to landowners for permission... ...s; is it not one thing to set up a new gin-palace and another to accept an investment in an old one? The profits made out of lost souls—where can the ... ...possible to keep out of money and consequent influ- ence. Also, profitable investments in trades where the power of the prince of this world showed it...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...er with cattle, if the tribe is a pastoral one, they are the usual form of investment for a profit. T o such an extent may female slavery give its cha... ...isure executed by these per- sons for their master or patron represents an investment on his part with a view to an increase of good fame. As regards ... ...rces engaged are in large part apprehended as in- scrutable and fortuitous agencies, whose working lies beyond the workman’s control or discretion. In... ...ses itself. The service by which it is sought to conciliate super- natural agencies in the primitive cults is not an industrially profitable employmen...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...ibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes o... ...ave been devoted to them, had been di verted from them for the most prudent investment, the moral culpability would have been the same. George Barnwe...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 2 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...he 29th of May, 1822), and, in addition thereto, for superintending Indian Agencies at Piqua, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Chi- cago, Illinois, at t... ...sposed to hold on to it, unless they could see something to be made by its investment. He could not see what motive of advantage to the new States cou...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ly and willingly. We are resigned in advance to losing the interest on our investments of virtue, but we wish not to appear ridiculous by having count... ...s. Such a bar of iron could never give you an outward de- scription of the agencies that had the power of stir- ring it so strongly; yet of their pres... ... material so it is logically conceivable that if there be higher spiritual agencies that can di- rectly touch us, the psychological condition of their...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...d Rachel, to whom literature was still an oracle un- connected with living agencies, listened, yes, absolutely lis- tened to her anecdotes of sayings ... ...business affairs, and throwing the whole burthen on him of deciding on her investments; but in such a gracious, dependent, grateful way that he could ...

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