Preface to the Revised Edition (October, 1906)
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)
“Jixiao Xinshu (New Book Recording Effective Techniques) exists in two editions, the first (c.”
1560) had 18 chapters, and the later addition (1584), re-edited with new material had 14.
Jixiao Xinshu (1560; 1584)
The Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy (2007), Ch. 1: Two Versions
Variant: The modern age did not so much invent new forms of migration as alter drastically the means and conditions of the old forms
Source: Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917-1947, 1948, p. 96 as cited in: Sarah Collinson (1999) Globalisation and the dynamics of international migration implications for the refugee regime http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4ff59b852.pdf. May 1999. p. 1
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Eight, The Steep Ascent, p. 299
“We want great alteration, but we want nothing new.”
Political Register (2 November 1816), pp. 454–55
1810s
"Good Sports & Bad", p. 335; originally published in The New York Review of Books (1995-03-02)
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville (2003)
Mathematical Methods in Science (1977)
Context: The volume of the cone was discovered by Democritus... He did not prove it, he guessed it... not a blind guess, rather it was reasoned conjecture. As Archimedes has remarked, great credit is due to Democritus for his conjecture since this made proof much easier. Eudoxes... a pupil of Plato, subsequently gave a rigorous proof. Surely the labor or writing limited his manuscript to a few copies; none has survived. In those days editions did not run to thousands or hundreds of thousands of copies as modern books—especially, bad books—do. However, the substance of what he wrote is nevertheless available to us.... Euclid's great achievement was the systematization of the works of his predecessors. The Elements preserve several of Eudoxes' proofs.
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992)
Context: Technological competition ignites total war, which means it is not possible to contain the effects of a new technology to a limited sphere of human activity... What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to know in what ways it is altering our conception of learning, and how, in conjunction with television, it undermines the old idea of school.
