Government and the American economy, 1870-presentHolt, 1949 |
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... nature . He does not realize the demands he is making upon nature . For in- stance , he finds , as he has found before in many parts of this country , that it is cheaper to build his house of concrete than of wood , learning in this way ...
... nature . He does not realize the demands he is making upon nature . For in- stance , he finds , as he has found before in many parts of this country , that it is cheaper to build his house of concrete than of wood , learning in this way ...
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... nature by compelling the resources to renew and even reconstruct themselves in such manner as to serve increasingly ... natural resources . In the past we have admitted the right of the individual to injure the future of the Republic for ...
... nature by compelling the resources to renew and even reconstruct themselves in such manner as to serve increasingly ... natural resources . In the past we have admitted the right of the individual to injure the future of the Republic for ...
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... nature to help him wrest an abundant living from the earth . It was on the basis of inevitable scarcity that the Greek philosophers tried to justify chattel slavery . Today , as everybody ad- mits , the machine is our slave . We depend ...
... nature to help him wrest an abundant living from the earth . It was on the basis of inevitable scarcity that the Greek philosophers tried to justify chattel slavery . Today , as everybody ad- mits , the machine is our slave . We depend ...
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PHILOSOPHERS Of Laissez FAIRE | 4 |
Attitudes during the Progressive Era | 12 |
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