The book Capital And Labour was written by author Knight, Charles, 1791-1873, Ed Here you can read free online of Capital And Labour book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Capital And Labour a good or bad book?
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As late 72 CAPITAL AXD LABOUR. as the reign of Henry VIII. , Ei-asmus, a celebrated scholar of Holland, who visited England, complains that the nastiness of the people was the cause of the frequent plagues that destroyed them ; and he says, " their floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lie unmolested a collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and of every- thing that is nauseous. " The elder Scaliger, another scholar who came to... England, abuses the people for giving him no convenience to wash his hands. Glass vessels were scarce, and pottery was almost wholly un- known. The Earl of Northumberland, whom we have mentioned, breakfasted on trenchers and dined on pewter. While such universal slovenliness prevailed as Erasmus has described, it is not likely that much attention was generally paid to the cultivation of the mind. Before the invention of printing, at the time of the valuation of Col- chester, books in manuscript, from their extreme costli- ness, could be purchased only by princes.
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