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... profits by it , and makes the principle or the piece of wisdom or fact a part of our mental store , ready for use when the proper times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers ...
... profits by it , and makes the principle or the piece of wisdom or fact a part of our mental store , ready for use when the proper times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers ...
Page 16
... disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from 16 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... disadvantages , and allowed them to be , to a certain extent , their own masters . Though the workers had little chance of becoming rich by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from 16 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
Page 17
Charles Austin Beard. by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from the labour of others , they had still less chance of ending their days in the poorhouse . Sec . 13. - The System of Transportation . In these days of rapid ...
Charles Austin Beard. by thrift , industry , and especially by profits from the labour of others , they had still less chance of ending their days in the poorhouse . Sec . 13. - The System of Transportation . In these days of rapid ...
Page 47
... profit much by the saving . ) However , the new order has apparently come to stay , notwithstanding the rhapsodies of some of our reforming poets , who sing of the picturesque days of the hand wheel and loom . The ills which have stung ...
... profit much by the saving . ) However , the new order has apparently come to stay , notwithstanding the rhapsodies of some of our reforming poets , who sing of the picturesque days of the hand wheel and loom . The ills which have stung ...
Page 49
... law , " but a business method to be followed as long as it is profit- able to the competitors . Capitalists are not in business to demonstrate any abstract principles , or to substantiate the THE BREAKING UP OF THE OLD ORDER 49.
... law , " but a business method to be followed as long as it is profit- able to the competitors . Capitalists are not in business to demonstrate any abstract principles , or to substantiate the THE BREAKING UP OF THE OLD ORDER 49.
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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