Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-15675

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Author:: Wehberg, Heinrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/1054450218

Title:: Die Bodenreform im Lichte des humanistischen Sozialismus

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII,170 Seiten)

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Die Bodenreform im Lichte des Freihandels. 1891

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2. Benjamin Franklin [1784 people of the trading towns may be rich and luxuri- ous, while the country possesses all the virtues that tend to promote happiness and public prosperity. Those towns are not regarded by the country, they are hardly considered as an essential part of the States; and the experience of the last war has shown that their being in possession of the enemy did not necessarily draw on the subjection of the country, which bravely continued to maintain its freedom and independence notwithstanding. It has been computed by some political arithme- tician, that if every man and woman would work for four hours each day on something useful, that labor would produce sufficient to procure all the neces- saries and comforts of life, want and misery would be banished out of the world, and the rest of the twenty-four hours might be leisure and pleasure. What occasions then so much want and misery? It is the employment of men and women in works that produce neither necessaries nor conveniences of life, who, with those who do nothing, consume necessaries raised by the laborious. To explain this. The first elements of wealth are obtained by labor, from the earth and waters. I have land, and raise corn. With this, if I feed a family that does nothing, my corn will be consumed, and at the end of the year I shall be no richer than I was at the beginning. But if, while I feed them, I employ them, some in spinning, others in making bricks, etc., for building, the value of my corn will be arrested and remain with me, and at the end of the year we may all be better nD

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