...II, p. 498. 14 j. S. Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 6th edn, vol. II, 1865, book IV, ch. 6 ('I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on'). 15 Lord Keynes, F1rs* Annual Report...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition."77 It remained for Mill to note that a model of the "progressive state" could be constructed...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition. ... It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition. . . . There is room in the world, no doubt, and even in old countries, for a great increase of population,...

...doctrine of free labor. On the one hand, writes Mill, a "stationary state of capital" is preferable to "the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels, which form the existing type of social life." On the other hand, this deplorable spectacle of a humanity divided against itself is "a necessary stage...

...what they term the progressive state lies the stationary state... [which] I am inclined to believe would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition (quoted in Daly 1977, p. 14). Thomas Malthus (1970) is most famous for his Essay on Population which...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggh'ng to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels which...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...with the ideal of life held out by those who think the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing,...

...Darwin's Origin of Species (1859). The idea provoked scorn from a few such as John Stuart Mill, who wrote: 'I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ... trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels' (Principles of Political Economy,...

...state as too remote to enter the sociological purview, Mill avowed himself frankly as not charmed by 'the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...other's heels, which form the existing type of social life.'42 He wanted solitude and the preservation of natural beauty. To Marx who wrote of 'the idiocy...