...blessing to mankind. But has it been a blessing J John Stuart Mill said: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." And John Ruskin has written in this melancholy strain : Though England is deafened with spinning wheels,...

...deliberate conclusion, founded on a reasoned proof. " Hitherto," he writes, " it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." It is a belief of this kind that gives any strength it may have to the movement in the direction of...

...would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the...enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgeiy and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They...

...give an explicit endorsement to Mill's somewhat rhetorical verdict. " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." At any rate we have as yet no security that machinery, owned by individuals who do not themselves tend...

...question arises whether machinery is for the good or ill of the race. Mechanical inventions, says Mill, " have enabled a greater population to live the same...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." This is pointing the whole question most definitely. The war of controversy which surrounds the relationship...

...increase in productive power ? John Stuart Mill wrote, almost with a wail : "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." This cannot continue. The forces are gathering which will demand that machinery be utilized to lighten...

...unterscheidet. Es handelt sich hier nur um grosse, allgemeine »•) „It is questionable, if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.'' Mill hätte sagen sollen „of any human being not fed by other people's labour", denn die Maschinerie...

...acting under the pressure of necessity. John Stuart Mill said: "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes." This is quoted only to show that even in Mill's time, before we had reached nearly so high a mechanical...

...strange to find so reasonable a writer as John Stuart Mill declaring, " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Yet if we confine our attention to the direct effects of machinery, we shall acknowledge that Mill's...

...muscles and members without any aid from machinery. JS Mill has said : " It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." It seems to me that there can be no question at all that mechanical inventions have lightened the day's...