...would produce their legitimate effect, that of abridging labour. Hitherto T [1848] it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made || have...lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have V enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased...

...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...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. . . . But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human...

...tenths of the wealth, and the disproportion is growing. Says John Stuart Mill: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The age boasts many triumphs over time and space — a multiplicity of contrivances! But these wonder-working...

...tenths of the wealth, and the disproportion is growing. Says John Stuart Mill: "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." The age boasts many triumphs over time and space — a multiplicity of contrivances! But these wonder-working...

...order of things as strongly as does the modern socialist. In a famous passage, he questions whether " all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened...imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But 1 "Autobiography,"...

...this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made 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...

...this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made 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...

...this element in the standard of living that JS Mill was able to say that " hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.".j The accepted standard of expenditure in the com"* - v munity or in the class to which a person...

...conveniently worked and maintained. And you know, of course, the sad doubt of Mill: " It is questionable 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...

...ago (1857) by what seemed an audacious doubt. " Hitherto it is su P ersti questionable," he said, " 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...