"Equalization" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accurately divided to scale, is placed in the path of the stellar rays, when the thickness of it they have power to traverse furnishes a criterion of their intensity. Professor Pickering's "meridian photometer," on the other hand, is based upon Zoellner's principle of equalization effected by a polarising apparatus. After all, however, as Professor Pritchard observed, "the eye is the real photometer," and its judgment can only be valid over a limited range.[1607] Absolute uniformity, then, in estimates made by various means, under ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... that the equalization of property which we have supposed, added to the circumstance of the labour of the whole community being directed chiefly to agriculture, would tend greatly to augment the produce of the country. But to answer the demands of a ...
— An Essay on the Principle of Population • Thomas Malthus
... Tradition says that all the lands were redistributed, an equal portion being assigned to each of the nine thousand Spartan citizens, and a smaller and less desirable portion to each of the thirty thousand Perioeci,—but it is not probable that there was any such exact equalization of property. ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... her social board of equalization theories, is but a small factor in that mighty force which is filling the land with unfaithful wives and the potter's field ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... if this system continues to be strictly adhered to there will soon be as a natural consequence such an equalization of party benefit as will remove all temptation to relax or ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland
... present. In particular he stood for the abolition of that relic of feudalism—serfdom—which still seriously oppressed the peasantry of France; for liberty in thought and action for the individual; for curbing the powers and privileges of both State and Church; for an equalization of the burdens of taxation between the different classes in French society; and for the organization of a system of public education throughout the nation. He died before the outbreak of the Revolution he had done so much to bring about, but by the time he died the "Ancient Regime" ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... paid, this total will rise or fall (efficiency of labor remaining the same) with the price of the particular article. If the price rises, profits will be greater than elsewhere, and more capital will be invested in that one business; that is, the capital will be a demand for more labor, and, until equalization is accomplished in all trades between wages and profits, money wages will be higher in some trades than ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... thinking," said Fleda, looking up and laughing—"I was moralizing to myself upon the curious equalization of happiness in the world—I just sheered off from a feeling of envy, and comfortably reflected that one measures happiness by what one knows—not by what one does not know; and so that in all probability I have had near as much enjoyment in the little number of plants that I have ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner |
