ABSTRACT
This chapter examines closely the workings of human industry, it will be found, that, to whatever object it be applied, it consists of some distinct operations. These operations are seldom performed by one and the same person. Industry is divisible into theory, application, and execution. In qualities favourable to industry, the moderns have greatly surpassed the ancients, and the Europeans outstrip all the other nations of the globe. The meanest inhabitant of a European town enjoys innumerable comforts unattainable to the sovereign of a savage tribe. The work must have been completed by the manual skill of the workmen employed; some in constructing the buildings and furnaces, some in keeping up the fire, mixing up the ingredients, blowing, cutting, rolling out, fitting and fixing the pane of glass. The utility and beauty of the resulting product are inconceivable to those who have never been held this admirable creation of human industry.
