| Edward Young - 1857 - 370 páginas
...speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men ; so that all the little piece of intelligence left a man is not enough to make a pin or a nail, but exhausts...making the point of a pin, or the head of a nail." (Stones of Venice, same chap.) That pin-making, whether in whole or part, should absorb a man's "soul,"... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1873 - 624 páginas
...modern mechanical skill too often demands. "We have much studied and much perfected of late," he says, "the great civilized invention of a division of labor;...nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pint or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thmg, truly, to make many pins in a day... | |
| Walter Lionel Bicknell - 1880 - 218 páginas
...scrupulous are brought to ruin; not in the gilded slavery which turns man into a machine only capable of making the point of a pin or the head of a nail to an exquisite perfection. Is this a list which shows that we of the nineteenth century are wiser,... | |
| John Ruskin, Edwin Ginn - 1892 - 184 páginas
...labor, divided and subdivided until there are no entire workmen to be found, but only fractions, " so that all the little piece of intelligence that...making the point of a pin, or the head of a nail." His object is to lift the artisans of England out of their bondage and degradation, both for their... | |
| Joseph Shield Nicholson - 1893 - 482 páginas
...the same idea in a vehement protest against modern industry : " It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men — divided into mere...in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. . . . And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnaces' blast,... | |
| Sir Charles Waldstein - 1893 - 218 páginas
...— divided into mere segments of men — broken into small fragments and crumbs of life ; so that the little piece of intelligence that is left in a...point of a pin or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and'desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day ; but if we could only see with what crystal... | |
| John Ruskin - 1895 - 184 páginas
...labor, divided and subdivided until there are no entire workmen to be found, but only fractions, " so that all the little piece of intelligence that...making the point of a pin, or the head of a nail." His object is to lift the artisans of England out of their bondage and degradation, both for their... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1901 - 446 páginas
...give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but * Vide supra, p. 321. the men — divided into mere segments of men —...making the point of a pin, or the head of a nail. . . . And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast,... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1901 - 442 páginas
...labour that is divided; but * Vide supra, p. 321. the men—divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all...making the point of a pin, or the head of a nail. . . . And the great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast,... | |
| William James Dawson - 1902 - 294 páginas
...truly speaking, the labor which is divided, but the men: divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all...making the point of a pin or the head of a nail." This is really the ground of Ruskin's antagonism to machine-made goods, and his strong preference for... | |
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