 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Sida 4081848Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1848 - 798 sidor
...much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress ; as much room' fur improving the Art of Living, and much more likelihood...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manafacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1857 - 610 sidor
...labour. 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 sidor
...made 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 number of manufacturers to make large fortunes."—This sad result, for result it certainly is, is attributed to excess in... | |
 | 1861 - 686 sidor
...one : "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...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes ; but they have not... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 628 sidor
...labour. 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1866 - 628 sidor
...labour. 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...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1872 - 492 sidor
...lighted the day's toil of any human being ;" their only effect, in his view, having been that of enabling a greater population to live the same life of drudgery...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." Such is the sad admission of a writer who, in face of the fact that the world at large is... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 sidor
...questionable," says Stuart Mill, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day'8 toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of .the middle classes ; but they have not... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1873 - 212 sidor
...mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enrabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes ; but they have not... | |
 | 1874 - 586 sidor
...Economy, book iv. c. vi. s. 2), " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater...increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect... | |
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