Mises Daily
Author:
Henry Grady Weaver
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[Excerpted from chapter 18 of The Mainspring of Human Progress (1943)] When the American Revolution had its beginning, living conditions had scarcely changed since the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The colonial woman gathered her own firewood and cooked over an open fire, just as women had cooked since the dawn of history, and just as more than