Political EconomyD. Appleton, 1889 - 134 Seiten |
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... invention of the telegraph and the telephone . No doubt it may be said that all the greatest improve- ments in industry - most of what tends to raise man above the condition of the brute animals - proceed from science . The poet Virgil ...
... invention of the telegraph and the telephone . No doubt it may be said that all the greatest improve- ments in industry - most of what tends to raise man above the condition of the brute animals - proceed from science . The poet Virgil ...
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... invention of a great number of machines , which facilitate and abridge labour , and enable one man to do the work of many . There can be no doubt as to the increase of dexterity , which arises from practice . Any one who has tried to ...
... invention of a great number of machines , which facilitate and abridge labour , and enable one man to do the work of many . There can be no doubt as to the increase of dexterity , which arises from practice . Any one who has tried to ...
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... inventions have been made in this way . But , as a general rule , the division of labour leads to invention , because it enables ingenious men to make invention their pro- fession . The greatest inventors , such as James Watt , Bramah ...
... inventions have been made in this way . But , as a general rule , the division of labour leads to invention , because it enables ingenious men to make invention their pro- fession . The greatest inventors , such as James Watt , Bramah ...
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... invention of printing , books used to be thus copied out , and manuscript books were therefore very expensive , besides being full of mis- takes . The whole of Shakespeare's Plays can now be bought for a shilling ; and any one of the ...
... invention of printing , books used to be thus copied out , and manuscript books were therefore very expensive , besides being full of mis- takes . The whole of Shakespeare's Plays can now be bought for a shilling ; and any one of the ...
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... inventions , and discoveries ; and he uses roads , railways , public buildings , & c . , furnished at the cost of the community . The production of wealth , therefore , depends not on the will and exertions of a single man , but on the ...
... inventions , and discoveries ; and he uses roads , railways , public buildings , & c . , furnished at the cost of the community . The production of wealth , therefore , depends not on the will and exertions of a single man , but on the ...
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