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Page 132
... agriculture , and the crafts and prime - movers directly associated with agriculture . In Britain in the fifteenth century more than ninety per cent of the population lived in the countryside ; and though the proportion varied from ...
... agriculture , and the crafts and prime - movers directly associated with agriculture . In Britain in the fifteenth century more than ninety per cent of the population lived in the countryside ; and though the proportion varied from ...
Page 321
... agriculture operated could always be wiped out by a succession of dry years , a plague of insects , or the spread of ... agricultural practices , plus socially enforced penury and deprivation , were the incentives to daily work . To ...
... agriculture operated could always be wiped out by a succession of dry years , a plague of insects , or the spread of ... agricultural practices , plus socially enforced penury and deprivation , were the incentives to daily work . To ...
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... Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work . London : 1889 . Classic study of the possibilities of small - scale industry and agriculture with an ad- vanced neotechnic base . Though ' dated , ' it remains in advance of much current ...
... Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work . London : 1889 . Classic study of the possibilities of small - scale industry and agriculture with an ad- vanced neotechnic base . Though ' dated , ' it remains in advance of much current ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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