Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses, Notes and Other FragmentsRivingtons, 1884 - 256 páginas |
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... become a member of the College . His residence was deferred for a time by ill- health and other causes . When he returned to Oxford he was still incapable of any continued mental exertion , and it was not thought expedient that he ...
... become a member of the College . His residence was deferred for a time by ill- health and other causes . When he returned to Oxford he was still incapable of any continued mental exertion , and it was not thought expedient that he ...
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... become odious and even mischievous , some " second thoughts " must be added . He was as strongly in favour of freedom of labour , and freedom of trade , of sound principles of currency , of the modification ( if not the abolition ) of ...
... become odious and even mischievous , some " second thoughts " must be added . He was as strongly in favour of freedom of labour , and freedom of trade , of sound principles of currency , of the modification ( if not the abolition ) of ...
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... become more nicely adapted to one another ; as formerly in small villages , so now throughout the whole country and in the markets of the world . Again , perhaps , he did not sufficiently consider how difficult it would be to reduce to ...
... become more nicely adapted to one another ; as formerly in small villages , so now throughout the whole country and in the markets of the world . Again , perhaps , he did not sufficiently consider how difficult it would be to reduce to ...
Página xxi
... becoming clearer to me every day ; I feel how right I was to choose it as my subject . I try not to get excited , to let my mind work easily . I take every sensible precaution about my health , and try to turn my thoughts from that to ...
... becoming clearer to me every day ; I feel how right I was to choose it as my subject . I try not to get excited , to let my mind work easily . I take every sensible precaution about my health , and try to turn my thoughts from that to ...
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... become a pure faith or a dark super- stition , a healer of division or a sower of discord , a friend of progress or a prop of injustice , a herald of discovery or a hater of knowledge . What , then , can we in England do for Religion ...
... become a pure faith or a dark super- stition , a healer of division or a sower of discord , a friend of progress or a prop of injustice , a herald of discovery or a hater of knowledge . What , then , can we in England do for Religion ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith agricultural America Arnold Toynbee Arthur Young artisans assertion Balliol College believe capital capitalist causes cent century Chartists Church classes co-operators common competition condition corn Corn-Laws cotton cultivation demand distribution of wealth districts economists effect employer enclosures England English existence fact factory farmers farms freedom freeholders growth hands human idea ideal importance improved increase individual industrial Industrial Revolution influence instance interest James Mill James Watt labour Lancashire land landowners living Malthus manufacturers masters mediæval merchants method Mill modern moral nature Northern Tour organisation pauperism Political Economy Poor Law population present principle produce profits progress question Radicals rate of wages recognise reform religion rent repeal revolution Ricardo rise Robert Owen social Socialists society spiritual theory things thought tion towns Toynbee trade Trades-Unions true union wage-fund wants Wealth of Nations whole wool woollen workmen
Pasajes populares
Página 15 - The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 75 - The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.
Página 12 - By this wise provision," he says, " ie by making the passion of self-love beyond comparison stronger than the passion of benevolence, the more ignorant are led to pursue the general happiness, an end which they would have totally failed to attain if the moving principle of their conduct had been benevolence.
Página 185 - The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily ; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.
Página 194 - We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named "fair competition" and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings; we think, nothing doubting, that // absolves and liquidates all engagements of man. "My starving workers?
Página 106 - Throughout the whole of the present work I have so far differed in principle from the former, as to suppose the action of another check to population which does not come under the head either of vice or misery; and, in the latter part I have endeavoured to soften some of the harshest conclusions of the first Essay.
Página 98 - Sunday following, if need require, when the people are at the church at divine service, shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman what they of their charity will be contented to give weekly towards the relief of the poor...
Página 81 - To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
Página 90 - Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent fact to be the substitution of the factory for the domestic system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time.
Página 115 - There is supposed to be, at any given instant, a sum of wealth, which is unconditionally devoted to the payment of wages of labour.