| J. C. Cooper - 1903 - 392 pagine
...with its wonderful increase in productive power ? John Stuart Mill wrote, almost with a wail: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...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 pagine
...vom Handwerksinstrument unterscheidet. Es handelt sich hier nur um grosse, allgemeine »•) „It is questionable, if all the mechanical inventions yet...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... | |
| William Ritchie Sorley - 1904 - 158 pagine
...of ' things which are more excellent.' Writing many years ago JS Mill remarked that "hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." l 1 Political Economy, Book iv. chap. vi. § 2. There is a further question which ought to be asked... | |
| 1905 - 950 pagine
...fathers. We are not acting under the pressure of necessity. John Stuart Mill said: "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." This is quoted only to show that even in Mill's time, before we had reached nearly so high a mechanical... | |
| John Atkinson Hobson - 1905 - 286 pagine
...first sight therefore strange to find so reasonable a writer as John Stuart Mill declaring, " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Yet if we confine our attention to the direct effects of machinery, we shall acknowledge that Mill's... | |
| James MacKaye - 1906 - 578 pagine
...still do where competition is unrestricted. Mill, in his Principles of Political Economy says: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Such a statement is not true to-day — thanks to the activity of competition suppressing agencies... | |
| Robert Flint - 1906 - 522 pagine
...the exertion of their muscles and members without any aid from machinery. JS Mill has said : " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." It seems to me that there can be no question at all that mechanical inventions have lightened the day's... | |
| James MacKaye - 1906 - 218 pagine
...still do where competition is unrestricted. Mill, in his Principles of Political Economy says : " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Such a statement is not true to-day — thanks to the activity of competition suppressing agencies... | |
| Walter Rauschenbusch - 1907 - 478 pagine
...drudges of the mediaeval cities." If the celebrated saying of John Stuart Mill is true, that " it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being," it means that the achievements of the human mind have been thwarted by human injustice. Our blessings... | |
| John Bates Clark - 1907 - 600 pagine
...the direction of more comfort and less painful toil. For the famous statement of JS Mill that " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being" we may safely substitute, "It is the natural tendency of useful inventions to lighten the toil of workers... | |
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