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... methods and expedients have gone . If this country is not healthier , stronger , wiser , happier , and better off in the highest sense under a democracy than it was under an oligarchy , democracy will have failed , and some other plan ...
... methods and expedients have gone . If this country is not healthier , stronger , wiser , happier , and better off in the highest sense under a democracy than it was under an oligarchy , democracy will have failed , and some other plan ...
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... methods of production and distribution of the means of life , and consequently revolutionised all the economic functions of society . Man , who through the long centuries had toiled with his hands , aided by crude implements , to wrest ...
... methods of production and distribution of the means of life , and consequently revolutionised all the economic functions of society . Man , who through the long centuries had toiled with his hands , aided by crude implements , to wrest ...
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... methods of working and living , was unable to organise his life so that all might share in the benefits of the new inventions . The Industrial Revolution , with its factory system , and its increased facilities for intercourse , wrought ...
... methods of working and living , was unable to organise his life so that all might share in the benefits of the new inventions . The Industrial Revolution , with its factory system , and its increased facilities for intercourse , wrought ...
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... methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of an apparently uncontrollable natural world . The great manufacturing cities had not yet sprung up ; there ...
... methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of an apparently uncontrollable natural world . The great manufacturing cities had not yet sprung up ; there ...
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... methods of agriculture , brought about , for the most part , by the landed gentry who had acquired a knowledge of experimental farming , and whose capital enabled them to put it to practical test . Root - crops and artificial grasses ...
... methods of agriculture , brought about , for the most part , by the landed gentry who had acquired a knowledge of experimental farming , and whose capital enabled them to put it to practical test . Root - crops and artificial grasses ...
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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