Page 49 - As by means of water-carriage a more extensive market is opened to every sort of industry than what land-carriage alone can afford it, so it is upon sea-coast, and along the banks of navigable rivers, that industry of every kind naturally begins to subdivide and improve itself...
Page 286 - ... acquire them before they can be employed in those occupations. For a very small expense, the public can facilitate, can encourage and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.
Page 4 - Formally, we can define maturity as the stage in which an economy demonstrates the capacity to move beyond the original industries which powered its take-off and to absorb and to apply efficiently over a very wide range of its resources— if not the whole range -the most advanced fruits of (then) modern technology.
Page 4 - During the take-off new industries expand rapidly, yielding profits a large proportion of which are reinvested in new plant; and these new industries, in turn, stimulate, through their rapidly expanding requirement for factory workers, the services to support them, and for other manufactured goods, a further expansion in urban areas and in other modern industrial plants. The whole process of expansion in the modern sector yields an increase of income in the hands of those who not...
Page 286 - He does not even despise the prejudices of people who are disposed to be so favourable to him, and never treats them with those contemptuous and arrogant airs which we so often meet with in the proud dignitaries of opulent and well-endowed churches. The presbyterian clergy, accordingly, have more influence over the minds of the common people than perhaps the clergy of any other established church.
Page 79 - ... Parts of the Hills; and, therefore, all the Dung they can have must be from the trifling Quantity made by the Cattle while they are in the House. I never knew or heard of any Limestone, Chalk, or Marl, they have in the Country ; and, if some of their Rocks might serve for Limestone, in that Case their Kilns, Carriage, and Fuel would render it so expensive, it would be the same Thing to them as if there were none. Their great Dependence is upon the Nitre of the Snow ; and they lament the Disappointment...
Page 95 - It is one thing to build a village, to which people may refort if they choofe it, and another to drive them from the country into villages, where they muft ftarve, unlefs they change at once their. manners, their habits, and their occupations.
Page 98 - ... with them. The former had the same name with the usquebaugh, or water of life; but, by Boethius's account, it was taken with moderation. The Duke of Argyle, the principal proprietor of this country, takes great pains in discouraging the pernicious practice; and obliges all his tenants to enter into articles, to forfeit five pounds and the still, in case they are detected...
Page 334 - The Protestant Ethic Thesis in an Analytical and Comparative Framework," in SN Eisenstadt, ed., The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View (New York, London: Basic Books, 1968), 3-45.