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... scientific triumphs as have been brought forth in the last century and a half . Sec . 2. - Mechanical and Social Phases . The Industrial Revolution has two phases : one material , the other social ; one concerning the making of things ...
... scientific triumphs as have been brought forth in the last century and a half . Sec . 2. - Mechanical and Social Phases . The Industrial Revolution has two phases : one material , the other social ; one concerning the making of things ...
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... scientific production was wasteful and laborious . The enclosure of commons , which did more than anything else to break up the old open field system , had been going on since early in the Middle Ages ; but the practice increased ...
... scientific production was wasteful and laborious . The enclosure of commons , which did more than anything else to break up the old open field system , had been going on since early in the Middle Ages ; but the practice increased ...
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... scientific progress which has led mer to call this " The Wonderful Century , " and we have summarised the developments in democratic association through which the people have sought to establish and maintain certain standards of life ...
... scientific progress which has led mer to call this " The Wonderful Century , " and we have summarised the developments in democratic association through which the people have sought to establish and maintain certain standards of life ...
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... scientific treatment of the criminal and insane ; metal- lurgy and mining , and appliances for securing safety to underground workers ; electricity in its diversified uses for lighting , heating , transmission of power , telegraphing ...
... scientific treatment of the criminal and insane ; metal- lurgy and mining , and appliances for securing safety to underground workers ; electricity in its diversified uses for lighting , heating , transmission of power , telegraphing ...
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... scientific attention . The individual to - day who is conscientiously seeking guidance by which he may shape his social actions will hunt in vain in the massive volumes and myriad monographs which belong to the body of Literature known ...
... scientific attention . The individual to - day who is conscientiously seeking guidance by which he may shape his social actions will hunt in vain in the massive volumes and myriad monographs which belong to the body of Literature known ...
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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