These failures were caused by over-production,--that is, by an
inadequate market, or the distress of the people. What a pity
that machinery cannot also deliver capital from the oppression of
consumers! What a misfortune that machines do not buy the
fabrics which they weave! The ideal society will be reached when
commerce, agriculture, and manufactures can proceed without a man
upon earth!
In a Yorkshire parish for nine months the operatives have been
working but two days a week.
Machines!
At Geston two factories valued at sixty thousand pounds sterling
have been sold for twenty-six thousand. They produced more than
they could sell.
Machines!
In 1841 the number of children UNDER thirteen years of age
engaged in manufactures diminishes, because children OVER
thirteen take their place.
Machines! The adult workman becomes an apprentice, a child,
again: this result was foreseen from the phase of the division of
labor, during which we saw the quality of the workman degenerate
in the ratio in which industry was perfected.
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