Science and Commerce: Their Influence on Our Manufactures; a Series of Statistical Essays and Lectures, Describing the Progressive Discoveries of Science, the Advance of British Commerce, and the Conditions of Our Principal Manufactures in the Nineteenth Century |
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Page 170 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 11 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Page 163 - Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country; and whatever miseries I suffered, I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire; and yet, in spite of all these privations, I lived on quietly, and am now ashamed that I was not more discontented, and utterly surprised that all these changes and inventions did not occur two centuries ago.
Page 37 - Cultivation is the economy of force. Science teaches us the simplest means of obtaining the greatest effect with the smallest expenditure of power, and with given means to produce a maximum of force. The unprofitable exertion of power, the waste of force in agriculture, in other branches of industry, in science, or in social economy, is characteristic of the savage state, or of the want of knowledge.
Page 199 - ... annually, which is barely sufficient to supply the increasing demand for its own consumption, and for the continent of Europe. 4. That no stimulus of price can materially augment this annual increase, as the planters always grow as much cotton as the negro population can pick. 5. That, consequently, if the cotton manufacture of Great Britain is to increase at all, on its present footing, it can only be enabled to do so by applying a great stimulus to the growth of cotton in other countries adapted...
Page 95 - Gold many hunted, sweat and bled for gold ; Waked all the night, and laboured all the day. And what was this allurement, dost thou ask '? A dust dug from the bowels of the earth, Which, being cast into the fire, came out A shining thing that fools admired, and called A god ; and in devout and humble plight Before it kneeled, the greater to the less.
Page 10 - House, and tell us that he proposed to convey us regularly to Edinburgh, in coaches, in seven days, and bring us back in seven more, should we not .vote him to Bedlam?
Page 157 - The solution is then placed in a leaden vessel containing metallic copper ; this is gradually dissolved, and the silver precipitated in a pure metallic state. The sulphate of copper is also a valuable product, being employed in the manufacture of green and blue pigments. Other immediate results of the economical production of sulphuric acid, are the general employment of phosphorus matches, and of stearine candles, that beautiful substitute for tallow and wax. Twenty-five years ago, the present prices...
Page 140 - ... boiling in his veins ; the strength of a thousand horses is nerving his sinews; he pants to be gone. He would " snake
Page 149 - So that, in the year 1834, several thousand spindles may be seen in a single room, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, with no hand to urge their progress or to guide their operations — drawing out, twisting, and winding up as many thousand threads...