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Page 29
... recognised the difficulties with which the planters had to deal , and , at the solicitation of some friends , set to work to construct a mechanical cotton cleaner . Previous to his graduation at Yale College , he had been employed in ...
... recognised the difficulties with which the planters had to deal , and , at the solicitation of some friends , set to work to construct a mechanical cotton cleaner . Previous to his graduation at Yale College , he had been employed in ...
Page 30
... recognise him on account of his short apprenticeship . The University then took him up , and gave him a position as mathematical instrument - maker for the institution . It was while he occupied this position that he entered into a ...
... recognise him on account of his short apprenticeship . The University then took him up , and gave him a position as mathematical instrument - maker for the institution . It was while he occupied this position that he entered into a ...
Page 54
... recognised as expedient and desirable , and " though nominally free to move , both farmers and labourers were practically fettered to the manor by their ignorance and their poverty . " The ancient theory of State made for a fixed order ...
... recognised as expedient and desirable , and " though nominally free to move , both farmers and labourers were practically fettered to the manor by their ignorance and their poverty . " The ancient theory of State made for a fixed order ...
Page 56
... recognised as legitimate , and upheld by the learned writers on political economy . Individual liberty was the battle - cry , and it is not to be wondered at when we understand the folly of the old restrictive doctrines which held on ...
... recognised as legitimate , and upheld by the learned writers on political economy . Individual liberty was the battle - cry , and it is not to be wondered at when we understand the folly of the old restrictive doctrines which held on ...
Page 68
... recognised the failures and fallacies of the medieval trade regulations , they were naturally antagonistic to renewing , in any form , State interference . They strongly advocated the “ en- lightened self - interest " doctrine ; they ...
... recognised the failures and fallacies of the medieval trade regulations , they were naturally antagonistic to renewing , in any form , State interference . They strongly advocated the “ en- lightened self - interest " doctrine ; they ...
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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 mediæval 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