The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the better . What we call Nature does not indulge in sentimental pity ; she puts her failures out of their pain as quickly as she can . She does not keep idiot asylums . In ...
... struggle . It must and ought to be swept away , and the sooner the better . What we call Nature does not indulge in sentimental pity ; she puts her failures out of their pain as quickly as she can . She does not keep idiot asylums . In ...
Page 1
... struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning , frozen in the winter storms ...
... struggling could be chained to do his work . Through the countless ages , humanity had been the helpless prey of the vulture elements - con- sumed by fire , drowned by flood , struck down by lightning , frozen in the winter storms ...
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... struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush , and uproar which machinery and increased competition bring . The cheap and simple tools required in the " manufacturing establishments " of ...
... struggle for existence not so keen as at the present time . There were not the hurry , rush , and uproar which machinery and increased competition bring . The cheap and simple tools required in the " manufacturing establishments " of ...
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... navigation , but Robert Fulton reaped the honours of the century of struggle on the part of other inventors . In the spring of 1807 the Clermont was ་ launched , and in the autumn the new " 36 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... navigation , but Robert Fulton reaped the honours of the century of struggle on the part of other inventors . In the spring of 1807 the Clermont was ་ launched , and in the autumn the new " 36 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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... struggling to maintain life by the sheer strength of his muscle ; but if we look along the centuries of the future , we see the struggle for existence taking only a small portion of man's energy , leaving all the remainder of his ...
... struggling to maintain life by the sheer strength of his muscle ; but if we look along the centuries of the future , we see the struggle for existence taking only a small portion of man's energy , leaving all the remainder of his ...
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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