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 Atlantic Monthly - Page 2831915Full view - About this book
| England - 1848 - 788 pages
...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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes ; but they have not yet begun... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1848 - 602 pages
...industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable. if all the mechanical inventions yet...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun... | |
| England - 1848 - 806 pages
...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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes ; but they have not yet begun... | |
| England - 1848 - 802 pages
...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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes ; but they have not yet begun... | |
| Scotland - 1848 - 798 pages
...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...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manafacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 588 pages
...industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun... | |
| 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 yet...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... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1859 - 546 pages
...vice and misery in the world, is * According to Mr. J. 8. Mill (Principles, Book IV., ch. ii.), "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a great population to lead the Bame life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
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