 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 736 pagine
...industrial improvements would" produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have increased the comforts of the middle classes. The statement that inventions have not " lightened the day's toil of any human being " has been persistently... | |
 | William Burgess - 1887 - 320 pagine
...millions are either in poverty or struggling on the verge of it. John Stuart Mill remarked, " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Figures given by Mulhall show that the wealth of the United Kingdom increased about three hundred per... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1887 - 722 pagine
...the same life of drudgery and im^ prisorimeht, and an increased number of manufacturers and otners to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. The statement that inventions have not " lightened the day's toil of any human being " has been persistently... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1888 - 532 pagine
...releases man from such work is good. But if it be still true, as JS Mill said in 1848, that " it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being," it is evident that to some extent the liberating of wealth has meant the enslaving of man. As Emerson... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1889 - 340 pagine
...business. " Hitherto," says John Stuart Mill, "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions vet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being....comforts of the middle classes. But they have not begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their nature and in their futurity... | |
 | James Edwin Thorold Rogers - 1890 - 208 pagine
...millionaire can not live side by side. History bears out John Stuart Mill's declaration that it is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions yet made, have lightened the day's toil of any human being. The few have owned the machines and they have obtained the good. The only way out is the way England... | |
 | Ernest Belfort Bax - 1891 - 202 pagine
...on wage labour. " John Stuart Mill observes, in his ' Principles of " Political Economy,' that it is questionable if all the " mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the " day's toil of any human being. Such is, however, " by no means the object of machinery as applied under " the capitalist system. Like... | |
 | Henry George - 1911 - 594 pagine
...DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. CHAPTEB IV. — EFFECT OF THE EXPECTATION RAISED BY HATEBIAL PROGRESS. Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being. — •>"'•'• Bluart Mill. Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, £re the sorrow comes... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1891 - 556 pagine
...great thinker — who had lived too through many years of this inventive age — was able to question " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being; " yet so wrote John Stuart Mill.1 To that doubt we do not subscribe.2 That it could have been entertained... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - 1892 - 528 pagine
...now consider the causes that have produced it. I. — The Introduction of Machinery. " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." — JOHN STUART MILL. At the beginning of the century nearly all work was performed by hand. To-day... | |
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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... 
