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Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
He saw that wealth did not increase step by step with the increased productiveness of labour; but he believed he had discovered the cause of this in the mercantilistic and physiocratic sins of the past.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
At the commencement of the French Revolution, in the remotest villages every tongue was employed in echoing and enforcing the almost geometrical abstractions of the physiocratic politicians and economists.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Lafayette accepted the first correction but not the second; he was too much under the influence of his physiocratic friends even to understand the much more advanced theory of Jefferson.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
Quotes one who suggests Franklin was "half physiocratic before the rise of the physiocratic school."
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
