The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organisation of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters.
Now a terrible fall, averted in such fashion, was
productive of shock.
The apportionment, in the first instance, and the progressive extinguishment afterward, would be alike
productive of ill-humor and animosity.
Now, the moral side of an industry,
productive or unproductive, the redeeming and ideal aspect of this bread-winning, is the attainment and preservation of the highest possible skill on the part of the craftsmen.
'My interference, innocent as it was,' she wrote, 'has already been
productive of such deplorable results, that I cannot and dare not stir any further in the case of Ferrari.
Never yet, my dear girl, did I long to administer a
productive pecuniary Squeeze to any human creature, as I long to administer it to Mr.
The year had been
productive. Competition, by threatening to lessen their profits, had quickened their wits, roused their energies, and made them turn every favorable chance to the best advantage; so that, on assembling at their respective places of rendezvous, each company found itself in possession of a rich stock of peltries.
The company having now pretty well satisfied their thirst, nothing remained but to pay the reckoning, a circumstance often
productive of much mischief and discontent among the inferior rank of gentry, who are apt to find great difficulty in assessing the sum, with exact regard to distributive justice, which directs that every man shall pay according to the quantity which he drinks.
Dashwood, persuaded that such an excursion would be
productive of much amusement to both her daughters, and perceiving through all her affectionate attention to herself, how much the heart of Marianne was in it, would not hear of their declining the offer upon HER account; insisted on their both accepting it directly; and then began to foresee, with her usual cheerfulness, a variety of advantages that would accrue to them all, from this separation.
That day they brought up curious specimens from those
productive coasts.
As to the moral part of his character, the depth of his talent for accounts, and his ingenuity in making sterility itself
productive, were much boasted of.