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    156 MEETINGS AT GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH,

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    ,. ,, * The Of Social Annual Science Mee...

    of Here that , it particular would be s article aid , is : over the - community production : wanted true , I no rep more ly ; over of that -production , but it _,

    wanted something . The old inhabitants indeed wanted nothing ; but did When not the he forei produced gner himself the sup Qiow erfluous - a part article of the was community he laboring ) want without something a mo ? -

    for tive co ? mmodities . . . The equal new to comer all that broug he ht could with produce him into b the y h country is industry a demand ; and . _, it was his business to see that the supply he brought should be suitable

    commod to that i demand ties to . . . k . We brin saw gs an before add , it t i onal w p hoever ower of br purchase ings add . itional We now not that see desire that he he brings would also not an have additional troubled desir himself e to to consume produce ; . since [ Neither , if he of had the

    elements of demand _, , therefore , can be wanting . add it The ional illustration power of productio given in n the to latter arise from part the of thi accession s quotation to the supposes community the

    ci of p an le illustrated additional member is equall immi y app grating licable to from the a forei case gn of country an increase . But in the the prin pro - - ductive expressed power in thi of the eneral native proposition members of : That the community whoever brings , and commodities may be shortl to y

    market does so not g for the sake of getting rid of these , but for the sake of hi obta mself ining , in in other return word for t s hem he , brings the means with of him purchasing a desire other to purchase commodities exactl for y

    commensurate ; with his desire , to sell . industr " Hence were , thoug instrumenta h the l in cess increasin ion of w roduct omen ion to to the an hi gher tent branches far reate of " g p g

    than can y really be expected of it , no injury could flow from such a source ; but means The , on resen of the the t contrary cheapness same wa , ges all the f cap man benefit ital ; of in aris the oth ing art er i words from cles of increased , a chea ommerce pening resources is of at c ommodities , ibuta evoked ble b in y .,

    great p measure to the admission y into industry of the women of the working large ranks , section a chan of ge society which . by An so much increase increased in productive the produc power tive presents power o us f that

    alsofor with t and the me culture ans of of shorte the n community ing the hours . of If the bor wages , and so cap increasing ital of to the -day com , by - supporting roduce a the cert whole ain antit population of comm , enables odities three each -fourth individual s of that working populatio twelve n

    top hours a day ; the same qu cap y ital will enable four , -fifths of the same population to smaller produce number the of same hours amount per day of . commodities It is to be noticed , each , individual however , that working on this a

    there supposition is an the increas commodities e in productive would power not be , the cheapened increased ; because power , would althoug be h ducin exercised the not same in producing aggregate in a greater less time aggregat But e whether of commodities lied , to but the in effect

    proof cheapening g commodities , or applied to . the effect , of shortening app the hours very of labor much , there in the is power in either of each case individual an advantage to select to the from community the two ; advantages and it is according to his taste . In these remarks we have used terms more

    commonl applicable y applied to all to ranks the working productivel ranks y emp alone loyed , but . the principles involved are try " , wages § 2 . —But as a , whole _seconcjl would y _, althoug not h be b reduced y the admission , a slight of readjustment the female sex must to indus take

    to place a . standard The industrial according income to which at present he is received socially b , y if man not has legall adjusted y , bound itself to maintain women be women enabled of to his earn famil an y that independent have no livelihood nearer dependence the percentage . Should of

    remuneration hitherto destined for their support would be , withdrawn from man , or would tend to be so . But the percentage so withdrawn would be

    " * Mill's Political Economy , book iii . chap . xiv .

    156 Meetings At Glasgow And Edinburgh,

    156 MEETINGS AT GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/12/