 I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on...  Growth Fetish - Sida 9efter Clive Hamilton - 2003 - 262 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1940 - 1154 sidor
...on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition." I confess— he writes— I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the uormal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the wrangling, crushing, elbowing,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1956 - 954 sidor
...to believe that It would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the Ideal of life...by those who think that the normal state of human beinga Is that of struggling tt> get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1955 - 1474 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable Improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the lonnal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, rushing, elbowing,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1955 - 962 sidor
...with some experience of the industrial revolution, pleaded for a stationary state in these terms : normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trampling, crushing, elbo%ving, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1955 - 1064 sidor
...that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess 1 am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the ormai state of human beings is that of struggling tt> get on ; that the trampling, rushing, elbowing,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee - 1973 - 312 sidor
...to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition. I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...elbowing, and treading on each other's heels which forms the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind. I know not why it... | |
 | Crawford Brough Macpherson, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1979 - 404 sidor
...economic growth. In Mill's own emphatic words, in the chapter on "The Stationary State" in the Pnns-iplss, I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...type of social life, are the most desirable lot of mankind, or anything but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress. 16... | |
 | Richard Newbold Adams - 1982 - 164 sidor
...for developing a distaste for what JS Mill characterized in 1848 as "that struggling to get on; that trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each...heels, which form the existing type of social life ..." (Wiener 1981:33 quoting Mill 1961:748-51). Partisans of cultural explanations often forget that... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1988 - 366 sidor
...happiness. One critic of Trollope quoted John Stuart Mill, who 'confessed' that he was not 'charmed by the ideal of life held out by those who think that...of human beings is that of struggling to get on'. Mill had concluded that «'hile the Northern and Middle States of America had obtained the Six Points... | |
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