The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page v
... Government of this country . The future of this country , and the parts of the world dependent on it must be largely settled by the use , wise or foolish , good or evil , they will be making of this power . Their own future depends on ...
... Government of this country . The future of this country , and the parts of the world dependent on it must be largely settled by the use , wise or foolish , good or evil , they will be making of this power . Their own future depends on ...
Page vi
... government will be tried , whether people like it or not . Democracy is on its trial . If it is worked by wise men ... governments , is the least able to afford to listen to lies , or to grow corrupt , or to remain self - indulgent or ...
... government will be tried , whether people like it or not . Democracy is on its trial . If it is worked by wise men ... governments , is the least able to afford to listen to lies , or to grow corrupt , or to remain self - indulgent or ...
Page viii
... government , no set of formulas , can save a state unless the people who work the system or formulas are wise , and honest , and healthy . A nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable ...
... government , no set of formulas , can save a state unless the people who work the system or formulas are wise , and honest , and healthy . A nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable ...
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... Government . The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular , but intermittent and spasmodic , often depending upon apparently accidental causes . It is difficult to get a cross - section view of ...
... Government . The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular , but intermittent and spasmodic , often depending upon apparently accidental causes . It is difficult to get a cross - section view of ...
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... Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal dictates , while the mass of the people , " bowed . by the weight of centuries , " were obedient to the heritage of laws , traditions , and ...
... Government was in reality in the hands of a landed aristocracy more or less subject to royal dictates , while the mass of the people , " bowed . by the weight of centuries , " were obedient to the heritage of laws , traditions , and ...
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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