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Page vii
... things to them I have wished to say for some time . The classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and ...
... things to them I have wished to say for some time . The classes that labour with their hands for weekly wages have now entrusted to them much of the power possessed by the Government of this country . The future of this country , and ...
Page viii
... thing as they are remembered and attended to or not . It is worse and more unpleasant and more dangerous to be ruled by many fools than by one fool or a few fools . The tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly mob is a worse tyranny than the ...
... thing as they are remembered and attended to or not . It is worse and more unpleasant and more dangerous to be ruled by many fools than by one fool or a few fools . The tyranny of an ignorant and cowardly mob is a worse tyranny than the ...
Page ix
... thing at all . The hand of man , worked by the brain of man , is needed for that . A Windsor chair is an honest piece of work , acceptable ; the pieces of the wretched " drawing - room suite " the women are so proud to put in their ...
... thing at all . The hand of man , worked by the brain of man , is needed for that . A Windsor chair is an honest piece of work , acceptable ; the pieces of the wretched " drawing - room suite " the women are so proud to put in their ...
Page x
... thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's , or navvy's , or sailor's ; or indirect , as the ...
... thing in many cases . The only good institutions are those that do good work ; the only good work done is that which produces good results , whether they be direct , as the ploughman's , or navvy's , or sailor's ; or indirect , as the ...
Page xi
... times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers think ; that is what he wants them to do . The good teacher does not teach things , he tries to make his pupils teach PREFATORY NOTE xi.
... times comes . A man may be book - learned and very ignorant . Mr. Beard's book should make his readers think ; that is what he wants them to do . The good teacher does not teach things , he tries to make his pupils teach PREFATORY NOTE xi.
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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