 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4081848Full view - About this book
 | Ernest Scott - 1920 - 370 pages
...view. 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | Margaret Sanger - 1920 - 260 pages
...Stuart Mill, " 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." That, in a few words, sums up the greater part of labor's progress. We blame capitalism... | |
 | Bessie Ingman Drysdale - 1920 - 118 pages
...CONTROL " 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle class. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 264 pages
...it is questionable," he said, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which... | |
 | J. H. CLAPHAM, LITT.D. - 1921 - 442 pages
...mind— "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...to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment 1 ." All that can be said with certainty is that Krupp's workman had a command over necessaries and... | |
 | Sir John Harold Clapham - 1921 - 452 pages
...— " 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 imprisonment1." All that can be said with certainty is that Krupp's workman had a command over necessaries... | |
 | J. SALWYN SCHAPIRO - 1923 - 980 pages
...economist, John Stuart Mill, in 1847, "if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes, but they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | James Dundas White - 1924 - 236 pages
...— " 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1927 - 418 pages
...Hitherto (he said) 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...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes." It was not to be supposed that loud voices and urgent claims should not be heard... | |
 | 1940 - 768 pages
...questionable — the passage runs — if nil the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
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