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Page vii
... means to learn by his former mistakes , he nearly always has the chance , and the advance , though slow , will be continuous . Democracy is no heaven - born institution , There is no right divine about it . Darwin has dismissed the vii.
... means to learn by his former mistakes , he nearly always has the chance , and the advance , though slow , will be continuous . Democracy is no heaven - born institution , There is no right divine about it . Darwin has dismissed the vii.
Page x
... mean " getting rich , " which is a very different thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's ...
... mean " getting rich , " which is a very different thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's ...
Page xi
... means the wholesome feeling for humanity gone rancid and turbid and unwholesome , and is an expensive and dangerous ... mean book - learning , which is only a very little part of it . It is no good reading a book without understanding it ...
... means the wholesome feeling for humanity gone rancid and turbid and unwholesome , and is an expensive and dangerous ... mean book - learning , which is only a very little part of it . It is no good reading a book without understanding it ...
Page xiii
... means degen- eration , just as waste of money over bad or foolish things , or waste of work over ugly shams or false ornaments or dishonest productions of any kind . One of the most useful things a teacher can do is to help beginners to ...
... means degen- eration , just as waste of money over bad or foolish things , or waste of work over ugly shams or false ornaments or dishonest productions of any kind . One of the most useful things a teacher can do is to help beginners to ...
Page xiv
... mean to take advantage of them , who mean to make themselves and do make themselves able to see the things that the ignorant and the lazy miss and always will miss . Our trade rivals have learnt all they knew till a few years ago from ...
... mean to take advantage of them , who mean to make themselves and do make themselves able to see the things that the ignorant and the lazy miss and always will miss . Our trade rivals have learnt all they knew till a few years ago from ...
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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