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FESSENDEN'S REPORT , III . HERBERT SPENCER , IV . MR . ABOUT'S PROGRES , V. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY , PAGE . 29 67 82 91 ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1865 , by ALEX . DELMAR AND SIMON STERN , In the ...
FESSENDEN'S REPORT , III . HERBERT SPENCER , IV . MR . ABOUT'S PROGRES , V. THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY , PAGE . 29 67 82 91 ENTERED , according to Act of Congress , in the year 1865 , by ALEX . DELMAR AND SIMON STERN , In the ...
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FESSENDEN'S REPORT . THE task of analyzing a cotemporaneous State paper , and submitting it to the ordeal of a critical temperature , is always one of peculiar delicacy , particularly in times of civil com- motion ; for no matter how ...
FESSENDEN'S REPORT . THE task of analyzing a cotemporaneous State paper , and submitting it to the ordeal of a critical temperature , is always one of peculiar delicacy , particularly in times of civil com- motion ; for no matter how ...
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Under this law , which is still in force , Mr. FESSENDEN makes his first report to Congress . From the great import- ance of this document in times of war or financial commo- tion , its advent is always looked for with great interest ...
Under this law , which is still in force , Mr. FESSENDEN makes his first report to Congress . From the great import- ance of this document in times of war or financial commo- tion , its advent is always looked for with great interest ...
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Measured by such a standard - and this is certainly the standard which the law prescribes - we are compelled to say in all candor , that Mr. FESSENDEN's Report falls far short of the mark . Few of the statements called for are made up ...
Measured by such a standard - and this is certainly the standard which the law prescribes - we are compelled to say in all candor , that Mr. FESSENDEN's Report falls far short of the mark . Few of the statements called for are made up ...
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... which are not at all to be found " above " or in any other proper place in the Report , but are arbitrarily set down here and there seemingly for no other purpose than to make the Report utterly unintelligible .
... which are not at all to be found " above " or in any other proper place in the Report , but are arbitrarily set down here and there seemingly for no other purpose than to make the Report utterly unintelligible .
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| Title | The Social science review [afterw.] New York social science review. A. Delmar, S. Stern eds |
| Editor | Alexander Del Mar |
| Published | 1865 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2006 |
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