Imperial Germany and the Industrial RevolutionMacmillan, 1915 - 324 sider |
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aggregate anarchistic animus appears appreciable archaic Baltic Baltic region bearing borrowed British bronze age cameralistic century character characteristic Christendom circumstances civilisation commonly conception consequences consumption conventional countries course culture degree discipline doubtless dynastic earlier economic effect elements Elizabethan era Empire English English-speaking enterprise equipment Europe evidence experience fact Fatherland feudalistic force frontiers gain German growth habits of thought hand handicraft hybrid Imperial Imperial Germany industrial arts industrial community Industrial Revolution industrial system institutions interest less living material matter means mechanistic mediæval Mediterranean race ment munity nature necessarily neighbors neolithic north-European organisation outcome pagan particularly pecuniary perhaps period political popular population prehistoric present production Prussian question race racial régime relatively respect Scandinavian scheme sense sentiment spirit statesmen stone age substantial sufficiently taken technological tion trade tradition United Kingdom usufruct viking age warlike wont
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Side 63 - But it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that the alien elements seriously began to derange the framework of the archaic scheme.
Side 83 - English without having paid for it in the habits of thought, the use and wont, induced in the English community by the experience involved in achieving it. Modern technology has come to the Germans ready-made, without the cultural consequences which its gradual development and continued use has entailed among the people whose experience initiated it and determined the course of its development.
Side 79 - It reaches its best efficiency in either case, in war or in peace, only when the habit of arbitrary authority and unquestioning obedience has been so thoroughly ingrained that subservience has become a passionate aspiration with the subject population, where the habit of allegiance has attained that degree of automatism that the subject's ideal of liberty has come to be permission to obey orders.
Side 128 - All this does not mean that the British have sinned against the canons of technology. It is only that they are paying the penalty of having been thrown into the lead and so having shown the way.
Side 82 - England before the modern industrial regime came on; so that the German people have been enabled to take up the technological heritage of the English without having paid for it in the habits of thought, the use and wont, induced in the English community by the experience involved in achieving it.
Side 250 - Russians would have done better. desire the war in order to bring it to a head, if only care was taken to make the preparations so complete as to make war unavoidable.
Side 316 - ... innocent of exploitation, but full of all the personal and social virtues besides. But does the farmer see this class in this light? He does not. And Mr. Veblen has given us in one of his books an analysis of this society which may explain why: "The American country town and small city...
Side 70 - These are the received scheme of use and wont and the new state of the industrial arts; and it is not difficult to see that it is the latter that makes for readjustment; nor should it be any more difficult to see that the readjustment is necessarily made under the surveillance of the received scheme of use and wont.