Social Science and National Economy by Robert Ellis Thompson
"It might be easily and fairly elaborated into an economical history of the earth, for that history is nothing but the story of man's conquest of nature's resistance and the progressive mastery of her manifold utilities"
Originally published in 1875
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Robert Ellis Thompson's Social Science considers man in society, as that's the only place he exists, and it ain't no social contract pic.twitter.com/kuURdSHzoq
— Taste (@DisdainingT) September 18, 2022