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Critical Notices . —~ On the Economy of Machinery r , fyc . 645
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* That the master-manufacturer by dividing the work to be executed into different processes , each requiring different degrees of skill and force , can purchase [ exactly ] that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process ; whereas , if the whole work were executed by one workman , that person must . possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult , and sufficient strength to execute the most laborious of the operations into which the art is divided . '—p . 137 .
We should have liked more illustration of the * Division of Mental Labour ; though the instance given is a very striking one . In the remainder of the volume we have the application of sound philosophy , original thought , and extensive observation , to such subjects as the causes and consequences of large factories ; combinations , both of masters and men ; the effect of taxation on manufactures ; the exportation of machinery ; and the future prospects of manufactures as connected with science . Each topic would require along article for us to do justice to the author ' s views .
Iu Chapter XXIX ., there is an expose of the combination which has the last three years been established by the large bookselling houses , and forced by them upon the trade in general . He proposes to break it up by an association of authors . We doubt whether that expedient would succeed . * On the Manchester rail-road , above half a million of persons travel annually ; and supposing each person to save only one hour in the time of transit between Manchester and Liverpool , a saving of 500 , 000 hours , or of fifty working-days of ten hours each , is effected . Now this is equivalent to an addition to the actual power of the country of one hundred and sixty-seven men , without increasing the quantity of food consumed ; and it should also be remarked , that the time of the
class of men thus supplied , is far more valuable than that of mere labourers . '—p . 306 . Now , such a rail-road as this for the stirring intellect is Mr . Babbage ' s book . Only far better , for it branches off in many directions , and swiftly , yet pleasantly , conveys the mind into distant regions of
useful thought , discovery , and exertion . It saves us much * in the time of transit / and especially does it bring near the often remote and hostile domains of theory and practice . May there be many travellers , and all feel the gratitude they owe to the able and enterprising engineer I
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The Mysticism of Plato , or Si ? icerity rested upon Reality , Hunter , 1832 .
No truly great or fine mind was ever yet utterly lost to the world ;—nay more , —no mind containing within itself the capacity for any kind of greatness , has ever been so far the slave of circumstances as to be completely smothered by them ; force of any kind , mental or physical , must expend itself , otherwise it is not force , bat weakness . And thus it has always happened , that when there has been no place found for its evident and external operation , it has vet , by turning * inwards its
mental vision , found ample room and verge enough , in exploring the recesses of its own nature , its origin , and its hopes . To trace , through generation after generation , and age after age , the superstructure raised by time upon one such mental substratum , might be the study of a life ; and it was in the expectation of finding some steps hewn towards the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/69/
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