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The best analysis of the problem created by the introduction of new and simplifying machine processes in skilled trades is to be found in a volume called "Labor, Finance, and the War," Report of the Committee of Investigation , The Econ. Section, British Assn. Advancement of Science. In the same volume there is a careful analysis of the whole question of limitation of output.
"Please say no more about it." "Not if it distresses you. Just let me hope that you did not suppose I blamed you for your share in the matter or that I told the Janseniuses of it. I did not. Yes, I like orchids. A plant that can subsist on a scrap of board is an instance of natural econ " "YOU blame ME!" cried Agatha. "I never told the Janseniuses. What would they have thought of you if I had?"
Alluding to the productions of genius, this writer observes, that, "to estimate the value of NEWTON'S discoveries, or the delight communicated by SHAKSPEAKE and MILTON, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country." Principles of Pol. Econ. p. 48.
She took it out sometimes, and relieved the day's accumulated suffering by adding such notes as: "Be nice & human w. employes if ever have any of own; office wretched hole anyway bec. of econ. system; W. used to say, why make worse by being cranky." Or: "Study music, it brings country and W. and poetry and everything; take piano les. when get time."
See Power, The Paycockes of Coggeshall, pp. 33-4. Quoted in Lipson, Introd. to the Econ. Hist, of England , I, p. 421. Quoted ibid., p. 417. On John Winchcomb see Power, op. cit., pp. 17-18; and Lipson, op. cit., p. 419. Deloney's Works, ed. F.C. Mann, pp. 20-1. Ibid., p. 22. Quoted in C.L. Powell, Eng. Domestic Relations, 1487-1563 , p. 27.
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