 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.1927Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 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;... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 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 drudgery, and imprisonment, and an... | |
 | Bruce Mazlish - 1988 - 524 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... | |
 | W. W. Rostow - 1992
...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 drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman - 1990 - 406 psl.
...limitations of humans, machinery is potentially effort-saving. But citing John Stuart Mill's contention that '[i]t is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being' (Marx [1867], 1977, p. 492), Marx argued that capitalists were able to use machinery as a powerful... | |
 | John Cathcart Weldon - 1991 - 248 psl.
...co-operation and of social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries been attained ... Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...made have lightened the day's toil of any human being ... They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 psl.
...wealthy, but the mass of the population was sunk in dire poverty. It was "questionable," declared Mill, "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 fife of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1995 - 412 psl.
...destruction of nature in the name of progress. It was not society as a whole, but chiefly the middle classes. "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... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen, Rick Tilman - 1993 - 438 psl.
...the presence of this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The accepted standard of expenditure in the community or in the class to which a person belongs largely... | |
 | David F. Noble - 1995 - 186 psl.
...machinery or that the introduction of "labour-saving" devices would make work less onerous. "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being," Mill surmised. Rather, he suggested, "They have enabled a greater population to live the same life... | |
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