 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 - 364 psl.autoriai: Henry Charles Carey - 1859Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1918 - 320 psl.
...living at low levels, so that Mill in 1848 could write, as Sismondi wrote before him, that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." 1 To-day we can speak more cheerfully, and say that there has been a considerable lightening. But there... | |
 | William George Fitz-Gerald - 1918 - 456 psl.
...progress is a good thing is open to doubt in our present mood of disillusion. "Hitherto," says Mill, "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 to make... | |
 | Thorstein Bunde Veblen - 1919 - 202 psl.
...once more the reflection which John Stuart Mill arrived at some half-a-century ago, that, " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." THE VESTED INTERESTS THERE are certain saving clauses in common use among persons who speak for that... | |
 | Margaret Sanger - 1920 - 264 psl.
...labor finds itself enslaved instead of liberated by the machine. " Hitherto," says John Stuart Mill, " 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... | |
 | Ernest Scott - 1920 - 370 psl.
...own History of the Revolution 1848 — written, naturally, from a personal point of view. 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... | |
 | Phyllis Deane - 1979 - 332 psl.
...counterpart's in the 175o's.1 And in 1848 JS Mill wrote gloomily in his Principles that ' Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being'. '* Perhaps this was an exaggeration. ' It was easier to mind a completely self-acting mule than to... | |
 | Maxine Berg - 1982 - 396 psl.
...increasing the wealth of a few individuals, but of reducing labour and increasing leisure. 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... | |
 | Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay - 1986 - 282 psl.
...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... | |
 | Michael E. Brown - 1986 - 182 psl.
...Seashore 1954; Marx 1976, chaps. 14 and 15). John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." That is, however, by no means the aim of the application of machinery under capitalism. Like every... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 380 psl.
...cultivated, but improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. ("Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." This is a thesis more fully developed in Capital.) All of this is projection of feelings, not prediction;... | |
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