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... force or another , which , so far as we can judge by experience , is an essential part of the order of competition . " On page 104 , I say : " The charge of inefficiency , weakness , and crudity need not be based upon senti- ment about ...
... force or another , which , so far as we can judge by experience , is an essential part of the order of competition . " On page 104 , I say : " The charge of inefficiency , weakness , and crudity need not be based upon senti- ment about ...
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... forces against which he had been struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning ...
... forces against which he had been struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning ...
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... matter and crush of worlds " -it seemed as if man had become utterly powerless to adjust himself to the new conditions , to conquer and control them as he had 4 the forces of Nature . For a while after this 2 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... matter and crush of worlds " -it seemed as if man had become utterly powerless to adjust himself to the new conditions , to conquer and control them as he had 4 the forces of Nature . For a while after this 2 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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Charles Austin Beard. the forces of Nature . For a while after this industrial convulsion , and the demolition of the old order , man seemed paralysed . Economists , moral teachers , and social leaders groped in darkness amid confusion ...
Charles Austin Beard. the forces of Nature . For a while after this industrial convulsion , and the demolition of the old order , man seemed paralysed . Economists , moral teachers , and social leaders groped in darkness amid confusion ...
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... forces of an apparently uncontrollable natural world . The great manufacturing cities had not yet sprung up ; there was no Black Country , " with its forest of chimney stacks , pouring forth clouds of sulphurous smoke to darken the sun ...
... forces of an apparently uncontrollable natural world . The great manufacturing cities had not yet sprung up ; there was no Black Country , " with its forest of chimney stacks , pouring forth clouds of sulphurous smoke to darken the sun ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool