Bad Times and On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type

Bad Times and On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
Title Bad Times and On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type PDF eBook
Author Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher Library of Alexandria
Pages 125
Release 2020-09-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1465610782

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The present Depression of Trade is remarkable, not so much for its intensity or for its extent—in both of which respects it has been equalled or surpassed on previous occasions, but for its persistence during the long period of eleven years. The late Professor Fawcett, in his Free Trade and Protection (p. 151), says: “The industrial depression is generally thought to have commenced in the closing months of 1874;” and during every succeeding year it has continued to be felt with more or less severity, and its remarkable persistence has been commented on by politicians and public writers. Usually a period of depression is quickly followed by one of comparative prosperity. Such a reaction has been again and again predicted in this case; but up to the present time there are no satisfactory indications that the evil days are passing away. It is evident, therefore, that we are suffering in an altogether exceptional manner, that the disease of the social organism is due to causes or combinations of causes which have not been in action on former occasions, and that the remedial agencies which have been effective on former occasions of depression have now failed us. We thus find ourselves confronted with a problem of vital importance to our well-being as a nation. We are called upon to explain why it is that, notwithstanding the exceptional advantages we possess, in an ever-increasing command over the more recondite powers of nature, an ever-increasing use of labour-saving machinery, a body of labourers whose industry and skill are proverbial, and far more complete and perfect communication with the whole world than was possessed by any previous generation—notwithstanding all these favourable conditions, which would seem to render prosperity certain, we yet find trade crippled and labour paralysed, goods of all kinds selling at unremunerative prices, yet the masses too poor to buy, and universal complaints of diminished profits and restricted markets. So long as these questions are not fully and completely answered, so long as a remedy is not found for the widespread and persistent evil which afflicts the mass of our people, our whole system of social economy, even our civilisation itself, must be accounted to be failures. It will undoubtedly be admitted that a system of society under which willing hands cannot find profitable work, and countless shops and warehouses overflowing with every necessary, comfort, and luxury, mock the longing eyes of insufficiently-clad and half-starved millions, is neither a sound nor a safe one. We may therefore expect to find that the problem of trade-depression is fundamentally the same as that of the persistence of widespread poverty and pauperism notwithstanding our rapid and continuous growth in wealth; and if this be so, its solution will assuredly furnish us with some important principles to direct the course of future legislation. The main points of a sound political programme may be one of the important results of a successful investigation into the causes which have brought about the present depression of trade.

Against Purity

Against Purity
Title Against Purity PDF eBook
Author Alexis Shotwell
Publisher U of Minnesota Press
Pages 318
Release 2016-12-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 145295304X

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The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, as fundamental to our lives? Against Purity argues that the only answer—if we are to have any hope of tackling the past, present, and future of colonialism, disease, pollution, and climate change—is a resounding yes. Proposing a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures, Against Purity undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, disability, gender, and animal ethics as a foundation for an innovative approach to the politics and ethics of responding to systemic problems. Being against purity means that there is no primordial state we can recover, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha. There is no preracial state we could access, no erasing histories of slavery, forced labor, colonialism, genocide, and their concomitant responsibilities and requirements. There is no food we can eat, clothes we can buy, or energy we can use without deepening our ties to complex webbings of suffering. So, what happens if we start from there? Alexis Shotwell shows the importance of critical memory practices to addressing the full implications of living on colonized land; how activism led to the official reclassification of AIDS; why we might worry about studying amphibians when we try to fight industrial contamination; and that we are all affected by nuclear reactor meltdowns. The slate has never been clean, she reminds us, and we can’t wipe off the surface to start fresh—there’s no fresh to start. But, Shotwell argues, hope found in a kind of distributed ethics, in collective activist work, and in speculative fiction writing for gender and disability liberation that opens new futures.

The Tendency of the Principles Advocated in the "Tracts for the Times" Considered

The Tendency of the Principles Advocated in the
Title The Tendency of the Principles Advocated in the "Tracts for the Times" Considered PDF eBook
Author Edward Newenham Hoare
Publisher
Pages 118
Release 1841
Genre Oxford movement
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine

The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine
Title The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine repository and Missionary observer [afterw.] The General Baptist magazine PDF eBook
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Pages 302
Release 1885
Genre
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The Basic Trends of Our Times

The Basic Trends of Our Times
Title The Basic Trends of Our Times PDF eBook
Author Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 212
Release 1964
Genre History
ISBN 9780808400585

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Title The Encyclopaedia Britannica PDF eBook
Author Day Otis Kellogg
Publisher
Pages 902
Release 1902
Genre Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN

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Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History

Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History
Title Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of History PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 200
Release 1899
Genre Europe
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