Wealth-creationCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 308 pages |
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... Wars and International Rivalries - Various Modes in which War is Injurious - Annual Expenditure on Armaments in Time of Peace - Vast Number of Unproductive Consumers . CHAPTER IX . Annual Cost of the War - system in Time of Peace ...
... Wars and International Rivalries - Various Modes in which War is Injurious - Annual Expenditure on Armaments in Time of Peace - Vast Number of Unproductive Consumers . CHAPTER IX . Annual Cost of the War - system in Time of Peace ...
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... Wars and International Rivalries - Various Modes in which War is Injurious - Annual Expenditure on Armaments in Time of Peace - Vast Number of Unproductive Consumers . CHAPTER IX . Annual Cost of the War - system in Time of Peace ...
... Wars and International Rivalries - Various Modes in which War is Injurious - Annual Expenditure on Armaments in Time of Peace - Vast Number of Unproductive Consumers . CHAPTER IX . Annual Cost of the War - system in Time of Peace ...
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... Wars and international rivalries , B 4. Commercial isolation , B 5. Ignorance and immorality . On the peculiar position of land in regard to its limitation of extent and its immovability , as com- pared with the unlimitable growth and ...
... Wars and international rivalries , B 4. Commercial isolation , B 5. Ignorance and immorality . On the peculiar position of land in regard to its limitation of extent and its immovability , as com- pared with the unlimitable growth and ...
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... wars the employment of brute force to crush liberty or perpetrate injustice , & c . It is that portion of the world's wealth which is devoted to the first of these four sets of purposes --- viz . , to reproductive purposes - which alone ...
... wars the employment of brute force to crush liberty or perpetrate injustice , & c . It is that portion of the world's wealth which is devoted to the first of these four sets of purposes --- viz . , to reproductive purposes - which alone ...
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... wars of their time , and 30 millions to meet the expenses of military and naval establishments during a period of peace . The possible distention of these sums in case of a serious war may be more easily imagined than calculated . In ...
... wars of their time , and 30 millions to meet the expenses of military and naval establishments during a period of peace . The possible distention of these sums in case of a serious war may be more easily imagined than calculated . In ...
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