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History does not show greed of gain as the motive of the great steps in industrial progress.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
This new and enlarged edition of The Evolution of Modern Capitalism contains additions and alterations so great as to constitute it in effect a new book.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
Higher progress can only be purchased by an economy of the work of lower progress, the free, conscious expression of higher individuality by the routine subordination of lower individuality.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
The substitution of industrialism for warfare is not... understood to imply a diminution of individual enterprise, but an alteration in its application.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
In proportion as we add to mere variety a higher appreciation of those adaptations of matter which are due to human skill, and which we call Art, we pass outside the limits of matter and are no longer the slaves of roods and acres and a law of diminishing returns.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
In proportion as a community comes to substitute a qualitative for a quantitative standard of living, it escapes the limitations imposed by matter upon man. Art knows no restrictions of space or size, and in proportion as we attain the art of living we shall be likewise free.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
Industrial progress would undoubtedly be slower under state-control, because the very object of such control is to divert a larger proportion of human genius and effort from these occupations in order to apply them in producing higher forms of wealth.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
Under socialized industry progress in the industrial arts would be slower and would absorb a smaller proportion of individual interest, in order that progress in the finer intellectual and moral arts might be faster, and might engage a larger share of life.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)