Manual of social science; being a condensation of the "Principles of social science" of . ition a doubleinfluence, greatly increasing its effectiveness when applied,and enabling him more continuously to apply it. His wantsand his powers being here, as everywhere, a constant quan-tity, every increase of the latter was attended with an en-largement of his proportions, the resistance of nature to hisfurther efforts diminishing as his powers of attack is it in all new settlements, security growing in a ratiofar exceeding that of numbers, and being obtained in returnfor contri
Manual of social science; being a condensation of the "Principles of social science" of . ition a doubleinfluence, greatly increasing its effectiveness when applied,and enabling him more continuously to apply it. His wantsand his powers being here, as everywhere, a constant quan-tity, every increase of the latter was attended with an en-largement of his proportions, the resistance of nature to hisfurther efforts diminishing as his powers of attack is it in all new settlements, security growing in a ratiofar exceeding that of numbers, and being obtained in returnfor contributions of time and mind, or the produce of both,constantly diminishing in the proportion borne by them tothe quantity of things produced. Look where the readermay, he will find evidence that the course of man towardscivilization is represented by the diagram already more thanonce submitted for his consideration : here again reproduced,in evidence of the universality of the law under which free-dom grows as the prices of raw materials and finished com-modities come nearer to each other. LAND. ^eedpm. Massachusetts. Latid valueless. Land high in valtm. On the left there is no security, the law of force alonebeing recognized. The weak are there the slaves of thestrong, to be taxed at pleasure. Passing towards the rightemployments become diversified, and individuality more andmore developed. The power of association steadily increases,(intil, at length, in Massachusetts, we find a community en-joying a higher degree of security, and giving in exchange OF DISTRIBUTION. 415 for it a smaller proportion of the products of labor than inan_v other country of the world. Passing upwards through English history* we obtain re-sults exactly similar. The men of early England, harassedby Danes and Saxons, enjoyed even less security than thoseof the days of the Plantagenets. Thenceforward, to theaccession of the Stuarts, there was no security in thenorthern and western counties. Elsewhe
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