ABSTRACT
T H E AMALGAMATION O F T H E C R A F T S
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other influences were comparatively gentle and noiseless. But the victory of one type of economic organization over another was none the less effectual because it was achieved in silence1. T o use a geological metaphor, we may say that the successive layers of economic strata are the same in both cases, but that in one case the forces of political upheaval have produced a ‘fault’ which brings them more clearly to our observation.
