 | 1883 - 660 стор.
...history of the world than progress. Arts and litera* " It is questionable," says John Stuart Mill, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."— "Polit. Econ," B. 10; ch. 6. tures and civilizations and religions have decayed far ofteuer than they... | |
 | 1848 - 798 стор.
...much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress ; as much room' fur improving the Art of Living, and much more likelihood...mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the daily toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | 1848 - 806 стор.
...improved, when minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on. Even the industrial arts might he as earnestly and as successfully cultivated, with...mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the daily toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | 1848 - 802 стор.
...and as successfully cultivated, with this sole difference — that, instead of serving no purpose bul the increase of wealth, industrial improvements would...mechanical inventions yet made have .lightened the daily toil of any human •being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery... | |
 | charles black - 1850 - 630 стор.
...barren. It advances with our growing knowledge, until our philosophers f confess with remorse, that ' hitherto it is questionable ' if all the mechanical...have lightened the ' day's toil of any human being.' It advances with our political reforms, the latest of which leaves behind a discontent the more dangerous... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 794 стор.
...the same difficulty which is noticed by Mr. Mill when he gays, " Hitherto it is questionable whether all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Now it occurs to us that somewhat of this may be accounted for by the tendency of large capitalist*... | |
 | William Johnston - 1851 - 376 стор.
...sink in the scale of social existence. " It is doubtful," says Mr. Mill, the political economist, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." But there can be no doubt that large fortunes have been made by the use of those inventions. In the... | |
 | John Barnard Byles - 1851 - 444 стор.
...luxury, our science. The poor are sinking deeper and deeper. " It is questionable," says Mr. Mill, " if all the mechanical inventions yet made, have lightened the day's toil of any human being." But why should we either marvel or despair ? This is but one of a thousand instances, in which the... | |
 | Sir George Kettilby Rickards - 1852 - 104 стор.
...common with Smith, Ricardo, Senior, and other masters of economical science. "Hitherto," says Mr. Mill, "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human beingc." This passage, imbued with that querulous spirit which characterises many of the writer's views... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 стор.
...deal of vice and misery in the world, is * According to Mr. JS Mill (Principles, Book IV., ch. ii.), "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a great population to lead the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers... | |
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Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. 
