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Appendix II. Examination Questions.

carpenter's tools, woods,

  1. If in a country like this a large amount of capital becomes fixed in the building of railroads, what effect will this change taken by itself have upon the laboring-class, supposing the capital to be (1) domestic, or (2) borrowed wholly or in part from abroad?
  1. What conclusion is reached by Mr. Mill respecting the objections to the use of labor-saving machinery?
  1. Is the extension of machinery beneficial to laborers?
  1. What is “the conclusive answer to the objections against machinery”?

Efficiency of Production.

  1. Explain briefly the chief causes on which the productiveness of labor depends.
  1. What are the principal ways in which advantage arises
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