...the approval of our present mode of industrial life, under which three distinct classes — laborers, capitalists, and landlords — receive remuneration...of railways. Our existing railway lines have been laitf down according to the best extant mechanical knowledge; but we do not think it necessary on this...

...with freedom of contract any more than with paternal government, or with systems of status!'1 " It has no more connection with our present industrial...improving our railways, to denounce mechanical science." And yet " some social reformers, whose ideal of industrial life involves a modification of our existing...

...Senior's and Mill's footsteps, expressing himself, as was his wont, more forcibly than ever they did: "Economic science has no more connection with our...mechanics has with our present system of railways" (Cairnes, 1965, p. 38). John Neville Keynes distinguished usefully, not just between a positive science...

...; with freedom of contract any more than with paternal government, or with systems of status." " It has no more connection with our present industrial...improving our railways, to denounce mechanical science." And yet " some social reformers, whose ideal of industrial life involves a modif1cation of our existing...

...Queen's College in Galway and, finally, University College in London, who described his science as having "no more connection with our present industrial system...mechanics has with our present system of railways"^ The gradual absorption of political economists into the institutional structure of the State was well...

...competing plans of railway construction, in which expense, for instance, as well as mechanical efficiency, is to be considered ; neutral, as Chemistry stands...our present system of railways. Our existing railway lifies have been laid down according to the best extant mechanical knowledge ; but we do not think...