test of value
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Man is not a mere worker, and efficiency is not the only test of value; the pursuit of truth and beauty for its own sake is a legitimate human ideal.
From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant
Yet in spite of all these extreme fluctuations, no better test of value has been suggested than the market price in open, unrestrained competition of buyers and sellers.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
In such an exchange no basis of value is reached, but in any ordinary bargain the final adjustment will be as nearly as possibly upon the test of value in the market.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
To Saadia, and especially to Bahya and Maimonides, the test of value is rationality.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac
But a hundred volumes in order to raise £50 must sell at an average of ten shillings apiece, and in the light of such a test of value he regarded dismayfully the victims.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton
