The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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Page viii
... nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable , ignorant , vain , self - indulgent persons cannot endure in the world- struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the ...
... nation with too large a proportion of stunted , un- healthy , besotted , irritable , excitable , ignorant , vain , self - indulgent persons cannot endure in the world- struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the ...
Page x
... nation , but every town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and ...
... nation , but every town , every village , every workshop , and every house be made healthier , be better managed , and the causes that check progress and security be done away with . We cannot afford to sit down and rub our bellies and ...
Page xiii
... nation . Health and wisdom are not incompatible with 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 ...
... nation . Health and wisdom are not incompatible with 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 ...
Page 14
... nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own needs ; but as the functions of society grew more complex , division of labour began . If the domestic weaver could obtain materials to keep him busy at more ...
... nation . Originally the communities of labourers worked to satisfy their own needs ; but as the functions of society grew more complex , division of labour began . If the domestic weaver could obtain materials to keep him busy at more ...
Page 20
... nations represented a very small proportion of the total produce . Just as the communities were isolated and largely self - sufficing , so nations were more independent and self - sustaining . The idea of any nation becoming the ...
... nations represented a very small proportion of the total produce . Just as the communities were isolated and largely self - sufficing , so nations were more independent and self - sustaining . The idea of any nation becoming the ...
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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