The Life, Times and Labours of Robert Owen, Volum 1Labour Association, 1889 |
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acting active apprentices asked attended belief Britain carried CHAPTER character classes commenced condition connection consequence considered corn laws cotton trade David Dale desire doubt Duke of Kent duty effect employed employers employment England establishment evils existence experience factory system facturers favour felt friends give Glasgow Government habits happiness human ignorance important improvement increase individual industry interest Jeremy Bentham Joseph Lancaster kind labour Lanark land large number London Lord Lord Aberdeen machinery Manchester manufacturing meeting ment Mexico mills mind Minister misery moral nation necessity object operations opinions opposition Owen's partners pauper persons plans political population practical present principles proceedings produce profit proposed Puebla rapidly reform regard religion religious result Robert Dale Owen Robert Owen says schools Scotland society success suffering thought tion Vera Cruz village visited wealth whilst WILLIAM CAIRNS William Ratcliff workers Xalapa yarn young
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Pàgina 160 - Do not look at us. We sit enchanted here, we know not why. The sun shines and the earth calls ; and, by the governing powers and impotences of this England, we are forbidden to obey. It is impossible, they tell us.' There was something that reminded me of Dante's Hell in the look of all this ; and I rode swiftly away.
Pàgina xv - I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Pàgina 88 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Pàgina 160 - ID silence : for, alas, what word was to be said ? An Earth all lying round, crying, Come and till me, come and reap me ; — yet we...
Pàgina 101 - If, then, due care as to the state of your inanimate machines can produce such beneficial results, what may not be expected if you devote equal attention to your vital machines, which are far more wonderfully constructed.
Pàgina 101 - Many of you have long experienced in your manufacturing operations the advantages of substantial, wellcontrived, and well-executed machinery. Experience has also shown you the difference of the results between mechanism which is neat, clean, wellarranged, and always in a high state of repair; and that which is allowed to be dirty, in disorder, without the means of preventing unnecessary friction, and which therefore becomes, and works, much out of repair.
Pàgina 39 - ... such infection is received, it is rapidly propagated, not only amongst those who are crowded together in the same apartments, but in the families and neighbourhoods to which they belong.
Pàgina 102 - Will you, then, continue to expend large sums of money to procure the best devised mechanism of wood, brass, or iron, and to retain it in perfect repair, — to provide the best substance for the prevention of unnecessary friction, and to save it from falling into premature decay...
Pàgina 30 - I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move their hands) to earn their bread, say one to three shillings per week, without going to the parish.
Pàgina 156 - legislators have appeared to regard manufactures only from one point of view — as a source of national wealth. The other mighty consequences which proceed from extended manufactures, when left to their natural progress, have never yet engaged the attention of any legislature. Yet the political and moral effects to which we allude, well deserve to occupy the best faculties of the greatest and the wisest statesmen. The general diffusion of manufactures throughout...