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Page 104 - The Russians, or rather those German writers who have observed the manners and habits of Russia, state some strong facts on this point. Two Middlesex mowers, they say, will mow in a day as much grass as six Russian serfs, and in spite of the dearness of provisions in England and their cheapness in Russia, the mowing a quantity of hay which would cost an English farmer half a copeck, will cost a Russian proprietor three or four...
Page 261 - A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
Page 34 - It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable.
Page 66 - are no criterion of the actual cost of executing works or of carrying out manufacturing operations. On the contrary, experience teaches that there is a most remarkable tendency to equality in the actual cost of work throughout the world.
Page 267 - Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid' by the piece, are very apt to over-work themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years.
Page 102 - I have been recently told,' he continues, ' by one who had been an English manager in a factory at Oldenburgh, that though the hours of work were from 5.30 am to 8 pm every day, only about the same weight of work was turned off under English overlookers as would be produced in a working day from 6 am 6 pm in this country.
Page 34 - The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of society. The stationary is dull; the declining, melancholy.
Page 269 - If masters would always listen to the dictates of reason and humanity, they have frequently occasion rather to moderate, than to animate the application of many of their workmen. It will be found, I believe, in every sort of trade, that the man who works so moderately, as to be able to work constantly, not only preserves his health the longest, but, in the course of the year, executes the greatest quantity of work.
Page 42 - The market price of labour is the price which is really paid for it, from the natural operation of the proportion of the supply to the demand; labour is dear when it is scarce and cheap when it is plentiful.
Page 259 - It is human nature that a man should like to feel that he is to be the gainer by any extra industry that he may put forth ; that he would like to have some sense of proprietorship in a shop or a mill, or whatever it may be, in which he...