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Page xv
... wealth , but worn - out vitality and blind ignorance quite certainly are . Only the strong man armed and healthy of brain can keep his house . Healthy people look to the future , sick people are content to linger through the day , or ...
... wealth , but worn - out vitality and blind ignorance quite certainly are . Only the strong man armed and healthy of brain can keep his house . Healthy people look to the future , sick people are content to linger through the day , or ...
Page xvii
... wealth than it contributes to t landlords , capitalists , and money - lenders . The stat- istics are not at present forthcoming to prove this statement , but a few figures will illustrate my point . Mr. Edson Bradley , Vice - President ...
... wealth than it contributes to t landlords , capitalists , and money - lenders . The stat- istics are not at present forthcoming to prove this statement , but a few figures will illustrate my point . Mr. Edson Bradley , Vice - President ...
Page xix
... 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 dis- putes arising out of the inevitable antagonism ...
... 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 dis- putes arising out of the inevitable antagonism ...
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... Wealth existed only in its simplest forms , and natural divisions of employment were not made , because only the rudest implements of production were used . The rough tools required for the cultivation of the soil , and the rude ...
... Wealth existed only in its simplest forms , and natural divisions of employment were not made , because only the rudest implements of production were used . The rough tools required for the cultivation of the soil , and the rude ...
Page 13
... wealth gave them influence and , finally , position in society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries ...
... wealth gave them influence and , finally , position in society . After the mercantile capitalists , who derived most of their wealth from foreign trade , came the capitalists who amassed great fortunes from home manufacturing industries ...
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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