 It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress; as much room...  Growth Fetish - Sida 223efter Clive Hamilton - 2003 - 262 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1992 - 260 sidor
...increase one's fortune. Money was useful, but it was not to be everything. As Mill wrote: "There would be as much room for improving the Art of Living, and...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on."67 But "getting on" was the preoccupation of the middle class, the soul of the commercial spirit,... | |
 | Gavan McCormack - 2001 - 374 sidor
...would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress; as much for improving the Art of Living, and much more likelihood...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. 7 Put in such terms by a prophetic nineteenth-century voice (who could have had no more than an inkling... | |
 | Robert Henry Nelson - 2001 - 412 sidor
...Ptogress would no longer be conceived in economic terms, but in the steady state, as Mill believes, "there would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of. . . moral and social progress; as much room for improving the Art of Living, and much more likelihood... | |
 | Terry Peach - 2003 - 370 sidor
...of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary long before necessity compels them to it. "It is scarcely necessary to remark, that a stationary...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference... | |
 | Kenneth Schneider - 2003 - 382 sidor
...explosive power, is fresh and demanding in our day of dangerous gluttony. One hardly need remark, he said, "that a stationary condition of capital and population...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference,... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 328 sidor
...stationary state? The following passage shows that, like all classicists, he means a state of no net-saving. It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary...implies no stationary state of human improvement. . . . Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole... | |
 | Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian - 2004 - 352 sidor
...on The Stationary State in JS Mill's Principles of Political Economy. You will remember that he said that 'a stationary condition of capital and population...ceased to be engrossed by the Art of getting on'. Mill thought that the great development of mechanical inventions had not yet begun at that time (1848)... | |
 | William Aiken, John Haldane - 2004 - 284 sidor
...and improvement. John Stuart Mill foresaw this possibility in his Principles of Political Economy: "There would be as much scope as ever for all kinds...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference,... | |
 | Jerry Evensky - 2005 - 364 sidor
...of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it. It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary...minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference,... | |
 | John R. Fitzpatrick - 2006 - 191 sidor
...may or may not wish to support. To follow up the previous passage, Mill in the next paragraph writes: It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary...likelihood of its being improved, when minds ceased to been grossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might be as earnestly and as successfully... | |
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