This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...miseries on their own people, extend their baneful influence to nations, inhabitants of the remotest parts of the earth. How many millions of the most harmless and innocent race of people to be found, have been by a few avaricious traders reduced to misery and famine! How many from Africa have been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...miseries on their own people, extend their baneful influence to nations, inhabitants of the remotest parts of the earth. How many millions of the most harmless and innocent race of people to be found, have been by a few avaricious traders reduced to misery and famine! How many from Africa have been brought to a worse condition than our cattle, by other sets of traders! The sum, therefore, of the effects of civilisation, in most civilised states, is to enable a few of mankind to attain all possible enjoyments both of mind and body, that their nature is susceptible of; but at the expense, and by depriving the bulk of mankind of the necessaries and comforts of life, by which a great proportion of them is destroyed, and the remainder reduced, both corporally and mentally, far below the most savage and barbarous state of man. All these things being brought about in a regular, orderly, silent manner, under specious forms, with the external appearance of liberty, and even of charity, greater deprivations are submitted to by the poor, and more oppression exercised over them, by this cool, deliberate, systematic junction of art and force, than force alone was ever known to accomplish. This, as we have said, is the actual state of things in most civilised countries; but I by no means assert that this state was brought about by the express design or the contrivance of any set of people in these communities. After the assump-tion of the land in large parcels, and the inequality of other property, which was the consequence of it, ' took place, it is probable that the power which followed, in those that possessed that property, over the rest of the people, was the spontaneous and almost necessary cause of the present system, in most civilised states;..
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Fine. No dust jacket, as issued. As new condition. Reprints of economic classics. Unknown printing. vii, 349 p. 23 cm. A reprint of the London edition, 1805.
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