... any air ; whose skill and individuality the training of countless generations has developed to the highest perfection ; these hereditary handicraftsmen are being everywhere gathered from their democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands... The Indian Craftsman - Page 104by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy - 1909 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
| sir George Christopher M. Birdwood - 1878 - 208 pages
...democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands to the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with...concerned than the grinder of a barrel organ in the tunes it turns out. I do not mean to depreciate the proper functions of machines in modern civilisation,... | |
| sir George Christopher M. Birdwood - 1878 - 190 pages
...mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with Manchester,'in the production of which they are no more intellectually...concerned than the grinder of a barrel organ in the tunes it turns out. I do not mean to depreciate the proper functions of machines in modern civilisation,... | |
| George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - British - 1878 - 194 pages
...mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with Manchester,"in the production of which they are no more intellectually and morally concerned than the griuder of a barrel organ in the tunes it turns out. I do not mean to depreciate the proper functions... | |
| George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood - Decorative arts - 1880 - 318 pages
...being everywhere gathered from their democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands into the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs, for...depreciate the proper functions of machines in modern civilisation, but machinery should be the servant and never the master of men. It cannot minister to... | |
| Nicolas Notovitch - Christianity and other religions - 1894 - 144 pages
...hundreds and thousands to the colossal mills of Bombay to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece-goods, in competition with Manchester, in the production of which they are no more intellectually or morally concerned than the grinder of a barrel organ in the 'tune it turns out.' " The arts and... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - Ethnology - 1902 - 354 pages
...being everywhere gathered from their democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands into the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs for tempting...depreciate the proper functions of machines in modern civilisation, but machinery should be the servant and never the master of men. It cannot minister to... | |
| John Atkinson Hobson - Great Britain - 1902 - 424 pages
...being everywhere gathered from their democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands into the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs for tempting...of a barrel organ in the tunes turned out from it." Even from the low standpoint of the world-market this hasty destruction of the native arts for the... | |
| Bouck White - Cities and towns - 1919 - 346 pages
...democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands, into colossal mills; at manufacturing piece goods, in the production of which they are no more intellectually...of a barrel organ in the tunes turned out from it." In England an Appeal, bearing such names as Morris, Burne-Jones, Millais, and Edwin Arnold, petitioned... | |
| David Arnold - History - 2000 - 260 pages
...craftsmen had been lured away in their thousands to the 'colossal' mills of Bombay, 'to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with...concerned than the grinder of a barrel organ in the tunes it evolves'.1"7 Birdwood's anti-industrial critique extended to agriculture, too. Ever since Charles... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1911 - 520 pages
...democratic village communities in hundreds and thousands to the colossal mills of Bombay, to drudge in gangs at manufacturing piece goods, in competition with...concerned than the grinder of a barrel organ in the tunes it evolves. I do not mean to depreciate the proper functions of machines and modern civilization, but... | |
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