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Quotation from Principles of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
“It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement.”
Principles of Political Economy, Book IV, Chapter VI: Of the stationary state (Principles of Political Economy, 7th ed. (1871), ed. W. J. Ashley (London: Longmans, Green, 1909), via the Online Library of Liberty)
From the chapter on the stationary state, where Mill welcomes an end to the race for ever-greater wealth if it leaves room for culture and moral progress.
Citation: "It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement." — John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book IV, Chapter VI: Of the stationary state (Principles of Political Economy, 7th ed. (1871), ed. W. J. Ashley (London: Longmans, Green, 1909), via the Online Library of Liberty). (id mill-principles-of-political-economy-q4)
