...at low levels, so that Mill in 1848 could write, as Sismondi wrote before him, that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." 1 To-day we can speak more cheerfully, and say that there has been a considerable lightening. But there...

...at low levels, so that Mill in 1848 could write, as Sismondi wrote before him, that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." 1 To-day we can speak more cheerfully, and say that there has been a considerable lightening. But there...

...is a good thing is open to doubt in our present mood of disillusion. "Hitherto," says Mill, "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes." The war-millionaire of Tokio; stock speculators of the Kabuto-cho, the narikins...

...more the reflection which John Stuart Mill arrived at some half-a-century ago, that, " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." THE VESTED INTERESTS THERE are certain saving clauses in common use among persons who speak for that...

... LABOUR TROUBLES AND BIRTH CONTROL " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle class. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their...

...finds itself enslaved instead of liberated by the machine. " Hitherto," says. John Stuart Mill, "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." That, in a few words, sums up the greater part of labor's progress. We blame capitalism and its wasteful,...

...Clavigera : " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions 1 Sesame and Lilies, i. 42. IOI yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes." I am .-afraid: that with posterity John Stuart Mill may. softer jn reputation from...

...deprive him of hope, and to degrade him into irremediable poverty.— THOROLD ROGERS. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a great population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers,...

...l'elemento storico. Da un'altra parte, la distinzione fra strumento e macchina viene cercata nel 10 « It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...made have lightened the day's toil of any human being ». Il Mill avrebbe dovuto dire « o/ any human being not fed by other people's labour » (d'un qualsiasi...

...counterpart's in the 175o's.1 And in 1848 JS Mill wrote gloomily in his Principles that ' Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have lightened the day's toil of any human being'. '* Perhaps this was an exaggeration. ' It was easier to mind a completely self-acting mule than to...