We can only have success in industry if we get away from the present deadening effect of a bad system of paying wages.
That is some evidence against the previous theory that such high levels of taxation would have a universally deadening effect.
But really one of the most deadening things that people talk about today is uniformity.
It has had a serious effect on manufactures and a very deadening effect on the workpeople.
There is also the worsening of the further deadening impact on unemployment figures.
There is nothing to my mind more deadening than merely relying on precedents and never being able to get outside precedents.
But the effect has been to produce a general deadening in the tempo of national life, a slowing down in practically every field of activity.
The deadening pseudo-morality found in society should give us pause for thought.
