Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital and Skill (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital and Skill

IT has been wisely said bya French writer, who has scattered. Abroad sound and foolish opinions with a pretty equal hand, that it re quires a great deal of philosophy to observe what is seen every day. To no branch of human knowledge can this remark be more fitly applied than to that which relates to the commonest things of the world, - namely, the Wants of Man and the Means of satisfying them. Upon this subject we now propose to address you.

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Excerpt from Knowledge Is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital and Skill

"Without attempting to give this volume the formal shape of a treatise on Political Economy, it is the wish of the author to convey the broad parts of that science in a somewhat desultory manner, but one which is not altogether devoid of logical arrangement. He desires especially to be understood by the young; for upon their right appreciation of the principles which govern society will depend much of the security and happiness of our own and the coming time."

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.