Die Fabriksparkasse

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Identifikator:: 1005178828

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-18208

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Altenrath, Johannes http://d-nb.info/gnd/1023399458

Title:: Die Fabriksparkasse

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Carl Heymanns Verlag

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 96 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: IV. Spareinrichtungen für Erwachsene

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2: Essays few years equalled by a growing daughter; but in the case of a mother-country and her colonies, it is quite different. The growth of the children tends to in- crease the growth of the mother, and so the difference and superiority are longer preserved. Were the in- habitants of this island limited to their present num- ber by any thing in nature, or by unchangeable circumstances, the equality of population between the two countries might indeed sooner come to pass; but sure experience, in those parts of the island where manufactures have been introduced, teaches us that people increase and multiply in proportion as the means and facility of gaining a livelihood increase; and that this island, if they could be employed, is capable of supporting ten times the present number of people. In proportion, therefore, as the demand increases for the manufactures of Britain, by the increase of people in her colonies, the number of her people at home will increase; and with them the strength as well as the wealth of the nation. For satisfaction in this point, let the reader compare in his mind the number and force of our present fleets with our fleet in Queen Elizabeth’s time,* before we had colonies. Let him compare the ancient with the present state of our towns on or near our western coast (Manches- ter, Liverpool, Kendal, Lancaster, Glasgow, and the countries round them) that trade with any manufac- tures for our colonies (not to mention Leeds, Hali- fax, Sheffield, and Birmingham), and consider what a difference there is in the numbers of people, build- * Namely forty sail, none of more than forty guns. 760; 30

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