...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...

...of wealth, industrial improvements would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labor. 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...

...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...drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manafacturers and others to make large fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...the same difficulty which Ls noticed by Mr. Mill when he •ч, " Hitherto it is questionable whether all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." Xow it occurs to us that somewhat of this may be accounted for by the tendency of large capitalists...

...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...

...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...