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Excerpt: Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill.

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...Contents PREFACE........................................................................................................4 ESSAY I: Of the Laws of Interchange between Nations; and the Distribution of the Gains of Commerce among the Countries of the Commercial World ..............................................................................................

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...ESSAYS ON SOME UNSETTLED QUESTIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY by JOHN STUART MILL 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A PENN ST... ...ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Penn- sylv... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...kery, the last stage in the manufacture of food; or gardening, a branch of agriculture. The following are wholly unproductive: Labour exerted, and exp... ...o mankind. The laws of the production of the one include the principles of agriculture; the production of the other is the subject of the art of cattl... ... we prefer to call it social economy, speculative politics, or the natural history of soci- ety, presupposes the whole science of the nature of the in... ...nduction from the conduct of particular despotic monarchs, as testified by history. The theorists would refer the question to be decided by the test n... ...e nothing of its certainty even if absolute kings had never existed, or if history furnished us with no information of the manner in which they had co...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks it...

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...tronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...orbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain ro... ...gh such conduct would not be wise, it would, nevertheless, be natural. The history of the states of Greece, and of other countries, abounds with such ... ...n ourselves. This sub- ject is copious and cannot easily be exhausted. The history of Great Britain is the one with which we are in general the best a... ..., ab- sorbed in the pursuits of gain, and devoted to the improve- ments of agriculture and commerce, are incompatible with the condition of a nation o... ...o this pleasing reward of their toils. The often-agitated question between agriculture and commerce has, from indubitable ex- perience, received a dec... ...sh the consumption of it, such an effect would be equally favorable to the agriculture, to the economy, to the morals, and to the health of the societ...

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...The long-awaited third edition of the Atlas of Hawai'i is entirely revised in content and design. It is divided into six sections, five of which are abundantly illustrated. The first contains detailed reference maps with place names for towns, mountains, b...

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...Eo e ku'u lei mokupuni o na kai 'ewalu- I call to you, acknowledge O my lei islands of the eight seas. Located between 19 and 22 degrees north latitude, Hawai'i is the southernmost state in the United States and has the same general latitude as Hong Kong and Mexico City. It is situated almost in the center ...

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...ai'i and Atmospheric Change -- 60 -- Paleoclimate and Geography -- 64 -- Natural Hazards -- 67 -- Earthquakes -- 69 -- Volcanic Hazards on the Island of Hawai'i -- 72 -- Hurricanes -- 74 -- Tsunamis -- 76 -- Coastal Hazards -- 79 -- The Ocean -- 82 -- Water -- 87 -- Soils -- 92 -- Astronomy -- 97 -- Biogeography -- 103 -- Evolution -- 107 -- Marine Ecosystems -- 111 -- Te...

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...What this Book is About There is a commonly held view that the incidence and scale of disasters is increasing in the modern world although some disagreement on whether the incidence of events, such as Tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, floods etc., that can give rise to disasters is increasing. The view is under...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... provision for man and horse among the wealthier classes. His own personal history lay buried beneath the deepest reserve. Like almost every military ... ... both cases without discus- sion. If the conversation turned on science or history, he was wont to become thoughtful, and to confine his share in it t... ...l. “I look upon these five years as the first epoch of prosper- ity in the history of our town,” the doctor went on after a pause. “During that time I... ...wandering. “No! no!” answered the commandant. “Our trade, handicrafts, and agriculture so far only sup- plied the needs of the district,” the doctor w... ... and the land is well cultivated; but there had been no previous errors in agriculture, and the soil was good to begin with, so that it has been easy ... ...s his time in convincing a commune of the folly of some mistaken notion of agriculture, confers upon his country a benefit quite as great as any that ...

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...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...camp, or torn into loathsome furrows of mud by cannon and army wagons—that agriculture was gone, and that every effort both of North and South was con... ...e calm individual excellence of the man. Considering the circumstances and history of the place, the position of Mount Vernon, as I saw it, was very r... ...table. It is written on the whole record of our race, British and American history is made up of re- bellion and revolution. Hampden, Pym, and Oliver ... ...y by any one who is afraid to go back upon the subject, and take its whole history since one man first claimed and exercised the right of forcing labo... ...uin that has come and is still coming, as they look on commerce killed and agriculture suspended. No sight so sad has come upon the earth in our days....

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