With Ricardo, the elder Mill and Nassau Senior, the main preoccupation is the production of wealth without regard to its moral environment; and the state for them is merely an engine to protect the atmosphere in which business men achieve their labors.
He critiques early economists for prioritizing wealth production without considering its moral implications.
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But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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