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| | David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Economics, Religion and Race in the 19th ... |
 | | It is entitled "The Dismal Science." Armed only with sharp teeth and claws and such insight as might be found in the "Wealth of Nations" or the "Dismal Science" he died alone, with only these useless abstractions and the now, also useless, money as companions. |
 | | Truly, my philanthropic friends, Exeter Hall Philanthropy is wonderful; and the Social Sciencenot a "gay science," but a ruefulwhich finds the secret of this universe in "supply-and-demand," and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone, is also wonderful. |
 | | Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. |
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