 | 1795 - 432 pages
...of crimes consists in one man's possessing in abundance that of which another man is destitute.— The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud, are the immediate growth of the established system of property. The other vices of envy, malice, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 386 pages
...causes of mjuch mischief to mankind, they " are, in reality, light and superficial, in com" parison with those deeper-seated causes ** of evil which result...are no longer encouraged, &c. he breaks out into his visual cant of, " I cannot conceive a form of " society so favourable upon the whole to po" pulation."... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 570 pages
...laws of nature. In a chapter on the benefits attendant upon a system of equality, Mr. Godwin says, " The " spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and " the spirit of fraud, these are the immediate " growth of the established administration of pro" perty. They are alike hostile... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1809 - 566 pages
...laws of nature. In a chapter on the benefits attendant upon a system of equality, Mr. Godwin says, " The " spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and " the spirit of fraud, these are the immediate " growth of the established administration of pro" perty. They are alike hostile... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...perpetually kept down to the level of the means of subsistence*," he anticipated the period when " the spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud," with their attendant vices, being banished from amongst men, a full developement would be given to... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 pages
...source of crimes consists in one man's possessing in abundance that of which another man is destitute. The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud, are the immediate growth of the established system of property. The other vices of envy, malice, and... | |
 | Robert W. Russell - 1848 - 326 pages
...debasing passions consists in one man's possessing in abundance that of which another man is destitute. The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud, are the immediate growth of the established system of property. The other vices of envy, malice, and... | |
 | 1858 - 574 pages
...foundations of his system of communism, expatiates upon the beautiful results which are to flow from it. " The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility and the spirit of fraud, these are the immediate growth of the established administration of property. They are alike hostile... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 pages
...ever on the stretch — their bodies invaded by infirmities and surrendered to an untimely grave. * * The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud — these are the immediate growth of an extreme inequality in the distribution of national wealth... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pages
...ever on the stretch—their bodies invaded by infirmities and surrendered to an untimely grave. * * The spirit of oppression, the spirit of servility, and the spirit of fraud—these are the immediate growth of an extreme inequality in the distribution of national wealth;... | |
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They are alike hostile to intellectual improvement. The other vices of envy, malice, and revenge are their inseparable companions. In a state of society where men lived in the midst of plenty and where all shared alike the... 
