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" The Principles of Political Economy are so closely analogous to those of Moral Philosophy, that almost every question in the one, may be argued on grounds belonging to the other. "
The Elements of Political Economy - Page vi
by Francis Wayland - 1837 - 472 pages
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The Elements of Political Economy

Francis Wayland - 1852 - 446 pages
...different divisious of the subject. In this latter case, he has introduced it the second time iustead of referring the reader to what has been said before,...general, to intermingle .them, but has argued economical questious on merely econominal grounds. For this reason, he has omitted many cousideratious which are...
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The elements of political economy. With revisions and additions

Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 pages
...Professor has introduced it the second time, instead of referring the reader to what had been said before. The principles of Political Economy are so closely...those of moral philosophy, that almost every question on the one may be regarded on grounds belonging to the othej. It has not, however, been thought proper,...
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Chapters in Political Economy

Albert Sidney Bolles - 1874 - 224 pages
...remark of DJ:._WAYI,AND is perfectly true, that " the principles of political economy are so clearly analogous to those of moral philosophy, that almost...the one may be argued on grounds belonging to the other."f For example, moral science condemns laws made in restraint of trade. J It teaches that every...
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Philosophy and Religion: A Series of Addresses, Essays and Sermons Designed ...

Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 pages
...allied to. Moral Philosophy as it is to purely physical science, and we can say with Dr. Wayland : " The principles of Political Economy are so closely...those of Moral Philosophy, that almost every question of the one may be argued on grounds belonging to the other. " And here we see how, in the very nature...
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University Chronicle, Volume 5

1902 - 396 pages
...example, made but a formal separation of the two. "The principles of political economy," he says,* "are so closely analogous to those of moral philosophy,...may be argued on grounds belonging to the other." The association of disciplines by teachers and scholars may, of course, be purely accidental, and it...
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The Development of High-school Curricula in the North Central States from ...

John Elbert Stout - 1921 - 346 pages
...the method was evidently borrowed from the field of philosophy of that time. He says in the preface: The principles of Political Economy are so closely...almost every question in the one may be argued on the grounds belonging in the other. He has not, however, thought it proper in general to intermingle...
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Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937

Herbert Hovenkamp - 2009 - 470 pages
...tradition. Like Smith, Wayland wrote books on both the moral sense and the foundations of political economy. "The principles of Political Economy are so closely...may be argued on grounds belonging to the other." 31 Wayland's position on the relationship between moral science and political economy was fundamentally...
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New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham

Donald E. Pease - 1991 - 142 pages
...usage of nineteenth-century moral philosophers, many of whom believed, along with Francis Wayland, that "The Principles of Political Economy are so closely...of Moral Philosophy, that almost every question in one, may be argued on ground belonging to the other." See Francis Wayland, The Elements of Political...
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A History of Economics and Business at Auburn University

David O. Whitten - 1992 - 100 pages
...prepare his own discourse. Wayland found the gap narrow between moral philosophy and political economy. "The principles of Political Economy are so closely...one, may be argued on grounds belonging to the other" (p. iv). It was his intention to keep the two apart. In effect Wayland viewed moral philosophy in terms...
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Social Science in the Crucible: The American Debate Over Objectivity and ...

Mark C. Smith - 1994 - 366 pages
...president of Brown University, declared in 1837 that "the principles of political economy are so completely analogous to those of Moral philosophy that almost...the one may be argued on grounds belonging to the other."4 The first Americans to use "social science" to describe their work were a group of pre-Civil...
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