 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...  The Dublin Review - Page 2991874Full view - About this book
 | Economics - 1879 - 356 pages
...all the mechanical inventions yet made had lightened the day's toil of any human being. They had only enabled a greater population to live the same life...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers to make fortunes. That machinery has not lightened the day's toil of any human being seems an unwarranted... | |
 | Frederick Perry Powers - Blue collar workers - 1880 - 48 pages
...all the mechanical inventions yet made had lightened the day's toil of any human being. They had only enabled a greater population to live the same life...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers to make fortunes. That machinery has not lightened the day's toil of any human being seems an unwarranted... | |
 | Henry George - Economics - 1879 - 600 pages
...CHAPTER IV. — EFFECT OF THE EXPECTATION RAISED BT MATERIAL PROGRESS. Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — John Stuart Mill. Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years?... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1882 - 624 pages
...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and other? to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not... | |
 | North American review - 1883 - 654 pages
...actual history of the world than progress. Arts and litera* "It is questionable," says John Stuart Mill, "if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." — "Polit. Boon," B. 10 ; eh. 6. DYNAMITE AS A FACTOR IN CIVILIZATION. 7 tares and civilizations and... | |
 | Karl Marx - Capital - 1883 - 840 pages
...scheiden ebensowenig die Epochen der Gesellschafts- wie die der Erdgeschichte. M) „It ia questionable, if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human beiag." Mill hätte sagen sollen „of any human being not fed by other people's labour", denn die... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1884 - 718 pages
...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...have increased the comforts of the middle classes. by many persons and has been taken out of its connection. Mr. Mill distinctly holds that the laborer's... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1884 - 326 pages
...being improved, when minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes."t In another page of the same work the writer says : — " The exclusive right to the land... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1887 - 736 pages
...improvements would" produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...have increased the comforts of the middle classes. The statement that inventions have not " lightened the day's toil of any human being " has been persistently... | |
 | William Burgess - Alcoholism - 1887 - 320 pages
...either in poverty or struggling on the verge of it. John Stuart Mill remarked, " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Figures given by Mulhall show that the wealth of the United Kingdom increased about three hundred per... | |
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