...of their muscles and members without any aid from machinery. JS Mill has said : " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." It seems to me that there can be no question at all that mechanical inventions have lightened the day's...

...hailed as a blessing to mankind. But has it been a blessing J John Stuart Mill said: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." And John Ruskin has written in this melancholy strain : Though England is deafened with spinning wheels,...

...a deliberate conclusion, founded on a reasoned proof. " Hitherto," he writes, " it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." It is a belief of this kind that gives any strength it may have to the movement in the direction of...

...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...enabled a greater population to live the same life of drndgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They...

...improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgeiy and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They...

...Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yct made have lightened the day's toil of anv human being. They have enabled a greater population...the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an inereased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of...

...hesitate to give an explicit endorsement to Mill's somewhat rhetorical verdict. " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." At any rate we have as yet no security that machinery, owned by individuals who do not themselves tend...

...question arises whether machinery is for the good or ill of the race. Mechanical inventions, says Mill, " have enabled a greater population to live the same...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." This is pointing the whole question most definitely. The war of controversy which surrounds the relationship...

...wonderful increase in productive power ? John Stuart Mill wrote, almost with a wail : "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." This cannot continue. The forces are gathering which will demand that machinery be utilized to lighten...

...Handwerksinstrument unterscheidet. Es handelt sich hier nur um grosse, allgemeine »•) „It is questionable, if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.'' Mill hätte sagen sollen „of any human being not fed by other people's labour", denn die Maschinerie...