...Stuart Mill was in doubt as to whether these improvements had benefited the great masses of the people. "Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...have increased the comforts of the middle classes, but they have not yet begun to effect the changes in human destiny which it is their nature and their...

...social justice.] IV HUMANIZING INDUSTBIALISM In 1857 John Stuart Mill wrote, "Hitherto it is quite questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their nature...

...social justice.] IV HUMANIZING INDUSTRIALISM In 1857 John Stuart Mill wrote, "Hitherto it is quite questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their nature...

...social order conveniently worked and maintained. And one remembers, of course, the sad doubt of Mill: It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which...

...social order conveniently worked and maintained. And one remembers, of course, the sad doubt of Mill: It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which...

...hopeful prophecy with which he follows it seems far from fulfilment. "It is questionable," he says, "if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which...

...progress is a good thing is open to doubt in our present mood of disillusion. "Hitherto," says Mill, "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number to make fortunes." The war-millionaire of Tokio; stock speculators of the Kabuto-cho, the narikins...

...the failure of machinery; "Hitherto it is questionable if the mechanical inventions have made lighter the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled...number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. . . . But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their...

...proletariate living at low levels, so that Mill in 1848 could write, as Sismondi wrote before him, that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." * To-day we can speak more cheerfully, and say that there has been a considerable lightening. But there...

...chiefly to the presence of this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The accepted standard of expenditure in the community or in the class to which a person belongs largely...