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Page viii
... persons it trusts ; if it trusts the wrong persons , it falls sooner or later - generally sooner . These are commonplaces , but they are not suffi- ciently attended to . Democracy is a good or bad thing as they are remembered and ...
... persons it trusts ; if it trusts the wrong persons , it falls sooner or later - generally sooner . These are commonplaces , but they are not suffi- ciently attended to . Democracy is a good or bad thing as they are remembered and ...
Page ix
... art are blind to good art , blind to natural beauty , and cannot understand what true art is . This is a degrading state to be in for any person or set of persons . We must not be deceived by words . We talk PREFATORY NOTE ix.
... art are blind to good art , blind to natural beauty , and cannot understand what true art is . This is a degrading state to be in for any person or set of persons . We must not be deceived by words . We talk PREFATORY NOTE ix.
Page x
... persons cannot endure in the world- 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 ...
... persons cannot endure in the world- 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 ...
Page xiii
... persons who pretend to be respec- table ( like the bakers and brewers who poison their customers by the careless use of adulterants ) upon persons who are often unable to detect or avoid the deceit and injury . The reading of good books ...
... persons who pretend to be respec- table ( like the bakers and brewers who poison their customers by the careless use of adulterants ) upon persons who are often unable to detect or avoid the deceit and injury . The reading of good books ...
Page xvi
... persons with good incomes to decry as materialistic all attempts to secure better wages , better homes , and better con- ditions of life and labour generally . Recently we have heard the bitter cry of the impoverished clergy for higher ...
... persons with good incomes to decry as materialistic all attempts to secure better wages , better homes , and better con- ditions of life and labour generally . Recently we have heard the bitter cry of the impoverished clergy for higher ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing combination compelled competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation industrial problem Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions mediƦval medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom profit progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen sanitary 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