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Perhaps The Most Important Principle On Which The Economy Of A Manufacture Depends, Is The Division Of Labour Amongst The Persons Who Perform The Work.

Propose To An Englishman Any Principle, Or Any Instrument, However Admirable, And You Will Observe That The Whole Effort Of The English Mind Is Directed To Find A Difficulty, A Defect, Or An Impossibility In It. If You Speak To Him Of A Machine For Peeling A Potato, He Will Pronounce It Impossible: If You Peel A Potato With It Before His Eyes, He Will Declare It Useless, Because It Will Not Slice A Pineapple.

A Young Man Passes From Our Public Schools To The Universities, Ignorant Almost Of The Elements Of Every Branch Of Useful Knowledge.

Miracles May Be, For Anything We Know To The Contrary, Phenomena Of A Higher Order Of God's Laws, Superior To, And, Under Certain Conditions, Controlling The Inferior Order Known To Us As The Ordinary Laws Of Nature.

There Are Few Circumstances Which So Strongly Distinguish The Philosopher, As The Calmness With Which He Can Reply To Criticisms He May Think Undeservedly Severe.