The Social System: a Treatise On the Principle of Exchange
The Social System: a Treatise On the Principle of Exchange
Gray John
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" Self-interest is the most " powerful stimulus that can be applied to " excite the industry, and to sharpen the « intellect and ingenuity of man j and no " proposition can be more true, than that " each individual can, in his local situation, "judge better what is advantageous and " useful for himself than any other person." The experience of every age and of every nation has proved, that a man can no more fix himself in that particular station of life which is best suited either to his indivi...dual interest, or to the collective interest of society, without the aid of a directing power to regulate the proceedings of the whole Digitized by Google 256. I'HE SOCIAL SYSTEM, society, than can a bar. of iron convert itself into a spring, or wheel, or screw, as it happens to be most wanted, for a piece of mechanism. To be industrious is nothing : we must work with^ instead of against, our fellows, before we can work effectually either for their interest or for our own. Population, so long as the present system of exchange exists, will ever have a ten- dency to increase faster than capital ; and in two centuries, we shall have to divide the food of nine persons amongst two hundred and fifty-six.
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