The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE ENGLISH CONCEPTION OF WELFARE 881 been able to protect himself against the degrading influence of reckless competition, and to secure that a measure of the increasing wealth of the realm shall be diffused so as to give better opportunities of welfare to the masses of the people. 284. A comeideration of the course of recent legislation The and the working of English institutions seems to show that on the conception of welfare, as it presents itself to the English &f 2elfare mind now-a-days, is not identical with the views that are from that cherished in other communities. The differences come into peoples clearer light when we turn from questions connected with the Tes diffusion of material wealth, to the moral elements which are involved in the idea of well-being. In all economic concep- tions there is relativity; while on one side there are material objects, on the other we have the human beings by whom these objects are used ; varieties of disposition and tempera- ment must introduce considerable differences in the aims they cherish. These are perhaps of greater importance with respect to the influence exercised on subject peoples, than in connection with the condition of the citizens themselves. There are two points in the mental attitude of English- a deep men which are at least less noticeable in other communities. gard fy There is, for one thing, a remarkably strong historic sense, treditios and regard for tradition. We have long prized our own, we have more lately learned to be respectful in our attitude to- wards those of other races. The sentiments of other peoples, as embodied in their literature and institutions, have been treated with marked tenderness, during the greater part of the nine- teenth century. So far are we from trying to stamp them out, and force English ways and habits of thought upon other peoples, that we are sedulous in the effort to exercise our influence to preserve and foster rather than to supersede. There was no similar feeling among English statesmen of the seventeenth century; the aim of James L and of Strafford and Laud was to assimilate the institutions and habits of thought of the realm of Great Britain and Ireland to one model, by recasting the ecclesiastical system of Scotland and bringing about thorough changes in the social conditions of Ireland. In Ireland that effort for assimilation has gone on, though in recent years there has been a reaction, and more attempt has 5A

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