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... nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable , ignorant , vain , self - indulgent persons cannot endure in the world- struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the ...
... nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable , ignorant , vain , self - indulgent persons cannot endure in the world- struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the ...
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... nation , but every town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and ...
... nation , but every town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and ...
Page xv
... nation . Health and wisdom are not incompatible with wealth , but worn - out vitality and blind ignorance quite certainly are . Only the strong man armed and healthy of brain can keep his house . Healthy people look to the future , sick ...
... nation . Health and wisdom are not incompatible with wealth , but worn - out vitality and blind ignorance quite certainly are . Only the strong man armed and healthy of brain can keep his house . Healthy people look to the future , sick ...
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... nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own needs ; but as the functions of society grew more complex , division of labour began . If the domestic weaver could obtain materials to keep him busy at more ...
... nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own needs ; but as the functions of society grew more complex , division of labour began . If the domestic weaver could obtain materials to keep him busy at more ...
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... nations represented a very small proportion of the total produce . Just as the communities were isolated and largely self - sufficing , so nations were more independent and self - sustaining . The idea of any nation becoming the ...
... nations represented a very small proportion of the total produce . Just as the communities were isolated and largely self - sufficing , so nations were more independent and self - sustaining . The idea of any nation becoming the ...
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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