I take it to be a mere plain truth that, throughout industrial Europe, there is not a single large manufacturing city which is free from a vast mass of people whose condition is exactly that described, and from a still greater mass who, living just on... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 7381888Full view - About this book
| Literature, Modern - 1901 - 744 pages
...throughout industrial Europe there is not a single large manufacturing city which is free from a large mass of people whose condition is exactly that described,...greater mass, who, living just on the edge of the social .>, wamp, are liable to be precipitated into it." "About one-third of the total population of London... | |
| Great Britain - 1906 - 1160 pages
...evil and not for good, men naturally enough begin to think it high time to try a fresh experiment. 1 take it to be a mere plain truth that throughout industrial...social swamp, are liable to be precipitated into it " (Professor Huxley, \intteenth Century, February, 1.S88). BS Rowntree estimated that the average income... | |
| Great Britain - 1908 - 1218 pages
...be a mere plain truth that throughout industrial Europe there is not a single large manufacturing1, city which is free from a vast mass of people whose...who, living just on the edge of the social swamp, are I liable to be precipitated into it" (Professor Huxley, Nineteenth Century, Feb. 1888). BS Rowntree... | |
| Choice literature - 1888 - 632 pages
...amidst a large and increasing body of that population, la mis'erv reigns supreme. I have no pretentions to the character of a philanthropist and I have a...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase. Argumentation can hardly be needful to make it clear that no society... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Christianity - 1891 - 316 pages
...population of all great industrial centres, whether in this or other countries, is aware that, amidst a large and increasing body of that population, la...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it ; continually increase. Argumentation can hardly be needful to make it clear that no society,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Social problems - 1891 - 162 pages
...or other countries, is aware that, amidst a large and increasing body of that population, la miscre reigns supreme. I have no pretensions to the character...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase. Argumentation can hardly be needful to make it clear that no society,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - England - 1891 - 158 pages
...of a philanthropist and I have a special horror of all sorts of sentimental rhetoric ; I am marely trying to deal with facts, to some extent within my...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase. Argumentation can hardly be needful to make it clear that no society,... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Capital - 1894 - 380 pages
...or other countries, is aware that, amidst a large and increasing body of that population, la mis&re reigns supreme. I have no pretensions to the character...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase. Argumentation can hardly be needful to make it clear that no society... | |
| Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1894 - 372 pages
...horror of all sorts of sentimental 1 Social Duea$es and Worse Remedies, 1891, p. 18. 1 Ibid. p. 24. rhetoric ; I am merely trying to deal with facts,...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase." l Here we have not the utterance of a fanatic, but the matured deliberate... | |
| Benjamin Kidd - Civilization - 1894 - 410 pages
...from a vast mass of people whose 1 Social Diseases and Worse Remedies, 1891, p. 1 8. 2 Ibid. p. 24. condition is exactly that described, and from a still...sunk in the pit and the number of the host sliding towards it continually increase."1 Here we have not the utterance of a fanatic, but the matured deliberate... | |
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