Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... Principles of Social Science - Page 364by Henry Charles Carey - 1859Full view - About this book
| England - 1848 - 788 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have -lightened the daily toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 590 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
| England - 1848 - 806 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the daily toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
| England - 1848 - 802 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have •lightened the daily toil of any human •being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
| charles black - 1850 - 630 pages
...advances with our growing knowledge, until our philosophers f confess with remorse, that ' hitherto it is questionable ' if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the ' day's toil of any human being.' It advances with our political reforms, the latest of which leaves behind a discontent the more dangerous... | |
| University magazine - 1850 - 794 pages
...the same difficulty which Ls noticed by Mr. Mill when he •ч, " Hitherto it is questionable whether all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Xow it occurs to us that somewhat of this may be accounted for by the tendency of large capitalists... | |
| John Barnard Byles - Economics - 1851 - 444 pages
...luxury, our science. The poor are sinking deeper and deeper. " It is questionable," says Mr. Mill, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made, have lightened the day's toil of any human being." But why should we either marvel or despair ? This is but one of a thousand instances, in which the... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1857 - 610 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
| Civilization - 1861 - 686 pages
...producer, is benefited by the inventions in machinery. Mr. Mill's remark seems a just one : "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
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