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... struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the better . What we call Nature does not indulge in sentimental pity ; she puts her failures out of their pain as quickly as she can . She does not keep idiot asylums . No ...
... struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the better . What we call Nature does not indulge in sentimental pity ; she puts her failures out of their pain as quickly as she can . She does not keep idiot asylums . No ...
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... struggling with one another waste an enormous amount of wealth , and capitalists and workmen fighting each other waste a great deal in addition . For example , in 1897-98 , 25,636,001 work- ing days were lost in England through labour ...
... struggling with one another waste an enormous amount of wealth , and capitalists and workmen fighting each other waste a great deal in addition . For example , in 1897-98 , 25,636,001 work- ing days were lost in England through labour ...
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... struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning , frozen in the winter storms ...
... struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning , frozen in the winter storms ...
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... struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush , and uproar which machinery and increased competition bring . The cheap and simple tools required in the " manufacturing establishments " of ...
... struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush , and uproar which machinery and increased competition bring . The cheap and simple tools required in the " manufacturing establishments " of ...
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... navigation , but Robert Fulton reaped the honours of the century of struggle on the part of other inventors . In the spring of 1807 the Clermont was launched , and in the autumn the new " water 36 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... navigation , but Robert Fulton reaped the honours of the century of struggle on the part of other inventors . In the spring of 1807 the Clermont was launched , and in the autumn the new " water 36 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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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