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	<title>Isegoria &#187; Andrew Bisset</title>
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		<title>Progress and Poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read Andrew Bisset&#8217;s The Strength of Nations on a whim, because it was mentioned in Henry George&#8217;s Progress and Poverty, which argues that land is fundamentally different from other forms of property: The English yeoman — the sturdy breed who won Crecy, and Poictiers, and Agincourt — is as extinct as the mastodon. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Be sure and put up with no affronts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a typical American thinks of the Puritans, Pilgrims come to mind &#8212; or maybe superstitious witch-burners. I suppose the typical Englishman thinks of Old Ironsides: &#8220;Be sure and put up with no affronts,&#8221; was the maxim of Cromwell; and when an English merchant — a Quaker — proved to him that a ship of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>General-at-Sea Blake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Father of the Royal Navy, Admiral Robert Blake, was then known not as Admiral Blake, but as General-at-Sea Blake: Blake&#8217;s business was to demand reparation for all the injuries done to the English during the civil wars. Casting anchor before Leghorn, he exacted from the Duke of Tuscany satisfaction for the losses which English [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Glory in Conquest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only glory in conquest, Andrew Bisset says — writing in 1859 — must be in the valour and military skill displayed: A man who obtains the appointment of governor-general of the British empire in India by rhetorical displays in the British Parliament, and then, by way of adding to his rhetorical renown the military [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>From Men, to Black Cattle, to Sheep</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes economic progress means moving from men, to black cattle, to sheep: The mountainous region of the north of Scotland contained large tracts of moorland, which were anciently employed chiefly for the rearing of cattle. It was found at a later period that these extensive pastures might be employed with much greater advantage in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The English Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unwritten English constitution bears little resemblance to the written American Constitution: The land of England was held on certain well-defined conditions, which conditions were, in the strictest sense, the purchase-money of that land. That purchase-money may be very accurately described to have been made payable as a perpetual annuity to the State, increasing in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Enormous Expense of Modern Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are the causes of the enormous expense of modern wars?, Andrew Bisset asks, in 1859 — and he first turns to David Hume for an answer: Some writers, and particularly David Hume, seem to think that the question is solved by the consideration of the greater facilities and means for borrowing which existed after [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Causes of Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a strong proponent of division of labor, Adam Smith favored standing armies over militias: Among his arguments in favour of standing armies in modern times, Adam Smith enumerates the greater difficulty of preserving any considerable degree of order and prompt obedience from the noise of firearms, the smoke, and the invisible death to which [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cromwell Attended Cambridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before rising to power, Oliver Cromwell attended Cambridge &#8212; and his head is now buried beneath Sidney Sussex College&#8216;s chapel: It may be added here, with regard to athletic exercises, that Cromwell, when at Cambridge, distinguished himself far more at football and cudgels than at the exercises of the schools; and that he, like Marlborough, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Nations of Shepherds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most extensive conquests in the history of the world have been made by nations of shepherds: An army of hunters, as Adam Smith has observed, and as we have seen exemplified in the case of the North American Indians, &#8220;can seldom exceed two or three hundred men. The precarious subsistence which the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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