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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

By: John Stuart Mill

...m their shares of the gain leave equal remainders. 4 4 4 4 4. The question naturally suggests itself, whether any coun- try, by its own legislative po... ...er share of the benefits of foreign commerce, than would fall to it in the natural or spontaneous course of trade. The answer is, it can. By taxing ex... ..., in the case already supposed, sought to obtain for herself more than her natural share of the advantage of the trade with Germany, by imposing a dut... ...the production of those ar- ticles, in which they had already the greatest natural advan- tages; and if the former country would be a loser by their i... ...urope with manufactures, but which owed their power of doing so not to any natural and perma- nent advantages, but to their more advanced state of civ... ...in a brief formula, what the science is, and wherein it differs from other sciences, so, it might be supposed, did the framing of such a formula natur... ...y scien- tific treatises. The definitions which those works furnish of the sciences, for the most part either do not fit them—some being too wide, som... ...ald Stewart had in view, when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is jus... ...f the human mind. The observation is just; and the first principles of all sciences, including the defini- tions of them, have consequently participat...

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