Thomas Paine spoke for middle-class radicalism when he said, “We know that every machine for the abridgment of labor is a blessing to the great family of which we are part.”

This text is an abridgment of a keynote address given at a Berlin conference on post-crisis economic policies, hosted by the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, 11-12 December 2009.

In a word, I gave him an abridgment of this whole history; I gave him a picture of my conduct for fifty years in miniature.

I ran over the whole history of my life in miniature, or by abridgment, as I may call it, to my coming to this island, and also of that part of my life since I came to this island.

Abridgment in sentence

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