[203] Evidence given by Mr. T. Birtwistle.
[204] Op. cit., p. 82. Babbage, in laying stress on one of the "advantages" of machinery, makes an ingenuous admission of this "forcing" power. "One of the most singular advantages we derive from machinery is the check it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the knavery of human agents." (Economy of Machinery, p. 39; cf. also Ure, Philosophy of Manufactures, p. 30.)
[205] Porter, Progress of the Nation, p. 590.
[206] Cf. Schulze-Gaevernitz, p. 115.
[207] For a fuller treatment of this subject, see the next chapter.
[208] Cf. Patten, The Theory of Dynamic Economics, chap. xi.
[209] Uses and Abuses of Money, p. 111.
[210] Principles, p. 315.
[211] Ibid., p. 316.
[212] Page 435.