The Social and Industrial Problem: A Brief Introduction to the Study of Social EconomicsCassell, limited, 1921 - 323 pages |
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Page 127 - History (1927-35), and to the various forms of assistance to the schools ; but enough has been said to give a general idea of the...
Page 314 - ... with their unquestioned authority in religion, and their almost equally undisputed influence in education, the Roman Catholic clergy cannot be exonerated from some responsibility in regard to Irish character as we find it to-day. Are they, I would ask, satisfied with that character? I cannot think so. The impartial observer will, I fear, find amongst a majority of our people a striking absence of selfreliance and moral courage ; an entire lack of serious thought on public questions; a listlessness...
Page 160 - This estimate is doubtless open to considerable modification, particularly as regards the amount expended on buildings and improvements. It indicates, however, clearly enough the general movement of agricultural land values. It may be urged that agricultural land possesses a sentimental value apart from its value as an income-producing investment. This element in the market price is certain to diminish as the ownership becomes more liable to interference from the State.
Page 314 - Irish character as we find it to-day. . . .An impartial observer will, I fear, find amongst the majority of our people a striking absence of self-reliance and moral courage...
Page 57 - A man is entitled to do what he likes with his OWN money. But. . . . Good Lord, Gypo...
Page 314 - Irish farmer is conservative, sceptical of innovation, a believer in routine and tradition ; in union with his fellows, ha is progressive, open to ideas, and wonderfully keen at grasping the essential features of any new proposal for his advancement. He was, then, eminently a subject for co-operative treatment.
Page 299 - Dawnay far more harm than the excellent qualities of his opponent. It is to be hoped that the lesson may be taken to heart, imd that one of its results may be to re-establish the authority of Sir Stafford Northcote over his party.
Page 91 - ... On the one hand there are always some advocates of slavery, who hold that the worker should receive only the cost of his subsistence, and that all the surplus produce beyond this level belongs to the owners of property. On the other hand there are those who assert that only work creates produce, so that the worker is entitled to the 'whole produce of his labour' — whether this allows some deduction for depreciation of capital not even always being made clear.
Page 143 - ... to the regulation of the mint, ought to be contained in a certain given sum of lawful money, they will no longer fulfil an old contract according to the spirit and essence of the agreement. In the case of a contract made for a fixed sum at a distant period, under the uncertainty and irregularity of a paper currency not convertible into gold at the will of the holder, the only equitable course for both parties to adopt appears to be, to ascertain the quantity of bullion which a pound note of the...
Page v - Preface THE following pages contain the substance of a series of lectures delivered in Twickenham in the winter of 1919-20.