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... turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle , but better chances to become honourable , wise , strong- bodied and strong - brained able men and women ...
... turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle , but better chances to become honourable , wise , strong- bodied and strong - brained able men and women ...
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... turn to England of 1760 , and examine the old order . What a strange panorama unrolls before our eyes ! We see not the England of to - day , but a quiet , rural England yet unawakened by the roar of traffic and industry . At the middle ...
... turn to England of 1760 , and examine the old order . What a strange panorama unrolls before our eyes ! We see not the England of to - day , but a quiet , rural England yet unawakened by the roar of traffic and industry . At the middle ...
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... turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of ...
... turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of ...
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... turning cranes for moving anchors into and out of the fire , the beating hammer lifted by the cogs of a wheel - these are machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was ...
... turning cranes for moving anchors into and out of the fire , the beating hammer lifted by the cogs of a wheel - these are machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was ...
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... turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that process from several months to a few days . The problem of supplying the enormous demand for raw materials now ...
... turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that process from several months to a few days . The problem of supplying the enormous demand for raw materials now ...
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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