 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 Handwriting on the Wall - Page 179by J. C. Cooper - 1903 - 377 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1848 - 788 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging 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 population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 590 pages
...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... | |
 | 1848 - 806 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging 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 population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pages
...wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging 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 population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | 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...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 - 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 pages
...deal of vice and misery in the world, is * According to Mr. JS Mill (Principles, Book IV., ch. ii.), "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a great population to lead the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased... | |
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