 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...  Century Monthly Magazine - 541 psl.redagavo - 1927Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1896 - 576 psl.
...discovery has been 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...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,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 498 psl.
...wealth, industrial 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. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 psl.
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgeiy and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1896 - 254 psl.
...must be regarded as a deliberate conclusion, founded on a reasoned proof. " Hitherto," he writes, " it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 538 psl.
...wealth, industrial 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. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - 1901 - 436 psl.
...though we should hesitate to give an explicit endorsement to Mill's somewhat rhetorical verdict. " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 psl.
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto 0Hi They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | J. C. Cooper - 1903 - 392 psl.
...era, with its wonderful increase in productive power ? John Stuart Mill wrote, almost with a wail: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...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... | |
 | Karl Marx - 1903 - 788 psl.
...Maschine vom Handwerksinstrument unterscheidet. Es handelt sich hier nur um grosse, allgemeine »•) „It is questionable, if all the mechanical inventions...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... | |
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