Word: handicraftsmen
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...Industrial Revolution, which replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines owned by lenders of capital, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers. Gradually, men felt themselves swallowed by a vast, impersonal machine, which rubbed away their self-respect and, in a way, their identities. In anger against this betrayal of the human spirit by the Industrial Revolution, millions of workers listened to the false promises of Marx's counterrevolution which, as Russia has proved, offered only greater loss of self-respect and, in the end, slavery...
...education so desirable ? Are, or have there been, many of them tramps, or paupers, or loafers in comparison with mechanics, artisans, and c., who have been blessed with "practical training" for life ? Farmers, builders, merchants, navigators, lawyers, judges, preachers, capitalists, high and low officials, editors, and even mechanics and handicraftsmen who are college bred men are all about us, extremely "practical" men as life seems to go. But the colleges, so far as is discoverable to many who open their eyes and look with all their might to see, have not been to any considerable extent producers of paupers, loafers...
...every now and then have to wait for employment. It is also a fact that colleges and college-bred men have done their share in performing the only really effective work that is being done at all-as it seems to some-to improve the condition of mechanics and handicraftsmen, and in placing them in their right relation to the social body, and establishing this relation on solid foundations. And how ? By inculcating broad and full views of life ; by connecting intelligence with mechanical pursuits and thereby both dignifying them and informing them with a genuine interest...
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