labors
three
times as
many hours
in the
course of
a year, as
any other
European;
or, his
life as a
workman is
three
lives. He
works
fast.
Every
thing in
England is
at a quick
pace. They
have
reinforced
their own
productivity,
by the
creation
of that
marvellous
machinery
which
differences
this age
from any
other age.
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'Tis a
curious
chapter in
modern
history,
the growth
of the
machine-shop.
Six
hundred
years ago,
Roger
Bacon
explained
