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英文名著3000 本 Unto This Last John Ruskin 1860 1 英文名著3000 本 Essays from the Cornhill Magazine 1860 reprinted as Unto This Last in 1862 The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race,perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection. Of course, as in the instances of alchemy, astrology,witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. The social affections, says the economist, are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant elements. Let us eliminate the inconstants, and, considering the human being merely as a covetous machine, examine by what laws of labour, purchase, and sale, the greatest accumulative result in wealth is obtainable. Those laws 2 英文名著3000 本 once determined, it will be for each individual afterwards to introduce as much of the disturbing affectionate element as he chooses, and to determine for himself the result on the new conditions supposed. This would be a perfectly logical and successful method of analysis, if the accidentals afterwards to be introduced were of the same nature as the powers first examined. Supposing