...recalling once more the reflection which John Stuart Mill arrived at some half-a-century ago, that, " Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." THE VESTED INTERESTS THERE are certain saving clauses in common use among persons who speak for that...

...than his counterpart's in the 175o's.1 And in 1848 JS Mill wrote gloomily in his Principles that ' Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...have lightened the day's toil of any human being'.'* Perhaps this was an exaggeration. ' It was easier to mind a completely self-acting mule than to push...

...of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the 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...

...was their unanimous declaration." Around the mid-century, John Stuart Mill could still maintain that "it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes." The evidence lay all about him, in the mills, collieries, foundries, and sweatshops...

...of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...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...

...Seashore 1954; Marx 1976, chaps. 14 and 15). John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being." That is, however, by no means the aim of the application of machinery under capitalism. Like every...

...of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun...

...of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...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...

...limitations of humans, machinery is potentially effort-saving. But citing John Stuart Mill's contention that ‘[i]t is questionable if all the mechanical inventions...have lightened the day's toil of any human being' (Marx [1867], 1977, p. 492), Marx argued that capitalists were able to use machinery as a powerful...

...years after the beginning of the industrial revolution in England, he is alleged to have remarked: Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical...increased number of manufacturers and others to make a fortune)° However, it is not the private property principle itself which is the cause of inequality....