![]() ![]() Amongst the important results of the recent attempts to extend Science to the labouring classes, maybe ranked the elementary treatises published by Baron Dupin.xxxi cited in: The Westminster Review, Volume 4. If ever, in the British Islands, the useful citizen should lose these virtues, we may be sure, that for England as well as for any other country, notwithstanding the protection of the most formidable navy, notwithstanding the foresight and activity of diplomacy the most extended, and of political science the most profound, the vessels of a degenerate commerce, repulsed from every shore would speedily disappear from those seas whose surface they now cover with the treasures of the universe, bartered for the treasures of the industry of the three kingdoms.The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850. xxxi Highlighted section cited in: Joel Mokyr. It is not alone the courage, the intelligence, the activity of the manufacturer and the merchant which maintain the superiority of the productions and the commerce of their country it is far more their wisdom, their economy, above all their probity. We may succeed for a time, by fraud, by surprise, by violence: we can succeed permanently only by means directly opposite. The successes obtained in the government of the arts, are similar to the successes obtained in the government of men.This is what it behoves us to know: as Frenchmen, for the advantage of France as friends of all humanity, by that just and generous sentiment which makes us feel interest in the dignity, the peace, the independence, the happiness of all nations, on whatever spot of the globe nature may have placed their country. ![]() The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925 Ĭharles baron Dupin (1825), The Commercial Power of Great Britain: Exhibiting a Complete View. My observations on these subjects were derived from a residence of five years in England during which time I was constantly employed in visiting and viewing every object and institution worthy of notice relative to the British Army and Navy. I have likewise described the connection of these forces with the government of the country, and also the discipline usually exercised in order to produce a hardihood in battle, invulnerable to fear and unassailable by cowardice. In the following work, I have endeavoured to exhibit the full extent of the Military and Naval Forces which the government of Great Britain can bring into the field, or launch upon the ocean.A Tour Through the Naval and Military Establishments of Great Britain, in the Years -, Sir R. A Tour Through the Naval and Military Establishments of Great Britain, 1822 Ĭharles baron Dupin. 1. Translation Wren & Bedeian (2005, 73)ġ826 choropleth map of France. Charles Dupin (1831), Discours sur le Sort des Ouvriers Paris: Bachelier Librairie.on the most important questions to the well-being, education, and morality of the workers, to the progress of national industry, to the development of all means of prosperity that work can produce for the splendor and happiness of our country. For 12 years I have had the honor of teaching geometry and mechanics applied to the arts, in favor of the industrial class.Charles Dupin (1826), Geometrie et Mechanique des Arts et Metiers et des Beaux Arts Paris: Bachelier Cited and translated by John Hoaglund, "Management Before Frederick Taylor," p.For a man to be a director of others, manual work has only a secondary importance it is his intellectual ability (force intellectuelle) that must put him in the top position, and it is in instruction such as that of the Conservatory of the Arts and Professions, that he must develop it. It is to the director of workshops and factories that it is suitable to make, by means of geometry and applied mechanics, a special study of all the ways to economize the efforts of workers.Charles Dupin (1808) in: Hacette (1813 86-87) as cited in Margaret Bradley, Charles Dupin (1784-1873) and His Influence on France, Cambria Press.Endlessly occupied by a thousand different matters and constrained my state duties, it is the work of an engineer that I herewith present and not the fruit of the meditations of a savant. I found myself obliged, through perhaps unique circumstances, to devote myself to my mathematical research, almost without help, advice or even books.1.2 The Commercial Power of Great Britain, 1925.1.1 A Tour Through the Naval and Military Establishments of Great Britain, 1822. ![]()
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