The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... to learn by his former mistakes , he nearly always has the chance , and the advance , though slow , will be continuous . Democracy is no heaven - born institution . There is no right divine about it . Darwin has dismissed the.
... to learn by his former mistakes , he nearly always has the chance , and the advance , though slow , will be continuous . Democracy is no heaven - born institution . There is no right divine about it . Darwin has dismissed the.
Page vi
... democracy than it was under an oligarchy , democracy will have failed , and some other plan of government will be tried , whether people like it or not . Democracy is on its trial . If it is worked by wise men and honest men , it may do ...
... democracy than it was under an oligarchy , democracy will have failed , and some other plan of government will be tried , whether people like it or not . Democracy is on its trial . If it is worked by wise men and honest men , it may do ...
Page 53
... Democracy in the modern sense had not yet appeared upon the political arena , for not over one person in five hundred had a vote . In the first place , the county boroughs were nearly all under the control of the county aristocracy ...
... Democracy in the modern sense had not yet appeared upon the political arena , for not over one person in five hundred had a vote . In the first place , the county boroughs were nearly all under the control of the county aristocracy ...
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... Democracy . Democracy , as we know it to - day , is of modern development . As has been pointed out in previous chapters , England at the time of the Industria ! Revolution was yet mediæval in its political organisation . George III ...
... Democracy . Democracy , as we know it to - day , is of modern development . As has been pointed out in previous chapters , England at the time of the Industria ! Revolution was yet mediæval in its political organisation . George III ...
Page 78
... Democracy . The conflict was not waged in Parliament alone , how- ever , for all over the country were groups of men determined not to abate their activities until the walls of political privilege were battered down . When the second ...
... Democracy . The conflict was not waged in Parliament alone , how- ever , for all over the country were groups of men determined not to abate their activities until the walls of political privilege were battered down . When the second ...
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acres Adam Smith agriculture amount appliances Arkwright became capital capitalists centres classes clothing Co-operative competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power House of Lords human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture means mechanical inventions medieval methods mill owners moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne output Parliament persons political economists population power loom problem productive capacity progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restricted Robert Owen sanitary secure Sidney Webb social society spindles spinners spinning steam steam-engine struggle stuffs textile things tion to-day towns trade transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool