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Page 553
... nature , which up to that period had been dormant . Rivers had turned mills for grinding corn and saw- ing lumber , but now they were set to doing work which in all former periods had been done by human hands . coal deposits had been ...
... nature , which up to that period had been dormant . Rivers had turned mills for grinding corn and saw- ing lumber , but now they were set to doing work which in all former periods had been done by human hands . coal deposits had been ...
Page 561
... nature does the work of six men for ten hours at a cost of about eighteen cents , or of one man for ten hours at a cost of three cents . Is the employment of this force detri- mental or beneficial to manual labor ? The argument that ...
... nature does the work of six men for ten hours at a cost of about eighteen cents , or of one man for ten hours at a cost of three cents . Is the employment of this force detri- mental or beneficial to manual labor ? The argument that ...
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... nature had not been brought into play ? But the forces of nature and the use of machin- ery have not been the only factors . CREDIT . Coöperating with these forces of nat- ure there has been what is felicitously termed a force of human ...
... nature had not been brought into play ? But the forces of nature and the use of machin- ery have not been the only factors . CREDIT . Coöperating with these forces of nat- ure there has been what is felicitously termed a force of human ...
Contents
Abolition of Poverty | 1 |
Labor and the Natural Forces | 9 |
Clarence Cook | 41 |
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