Progress and Poverty · Character
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish philosopher and historian, referenced on labor and social conditions.
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Also known as Carlyle
First appearance: ii the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth
Thomas Carlyle shows up with force in V: The Law of Interest. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Referenced in a hypothetical 'fool's paradise' example.
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In V: The Law of Interest: Referenced in a hypothetical 'fool's paradise' example. Later, in Epigraph: Author of the second epigraph, which illustrates the oppressive extraction of rent from the poor by the landed…
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- V: The Law of Interest
- Epigraph
- Of the Changes That Would Be Wrought in Social Organization and Social Life
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