“Friend, I do thee no wrong. Did’st not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way. I will give unto this last even as unto thee.” “If ye think good, give me my price; and if n...

The four following essays were published eighteen months ago in the Cornhill Magazine, and were reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with. Not a whit...

Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious⁠—certainly the least creditable⁠—is the modern soi-dis...

The answer which would be made by any ordinary political economist to the statements contained in the preceding paper, is in few words as follows:⁠— “It is indeed true that certain advantages of a gen...

Some centuries before the Christian era, a Jew merchant, largely engaged in business on the Gold Coast, and reported to have made one of the largest fortunes of his time (held also in repute for much ...

In the last paper we saw that just payment of labour consisted in a sum of money which would approximately obtain equivalent labour at a future time: we have now to examine the means of obtaining such...

Which? for where investigation is necessary, teaching is impossible. ↩ “Principles of Political Economy.” By J. S. Mill. Preliminary remarks, p. 2. ↩ “The effectual discipline which is exercised over ...