Note E7 — Chapter XV · THE POWER OF THE TRAINED HAND.
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But the pecuniary value of Mr. Bessemer’s discovery is not the consideration of chief import. Its social influence extends to the remotest bounds of civilization, and includes the whole human race, because it abridges the period of labor necessary to the production of a given quantity of useful things, thereby enhancing the sum of life’s comforts and pleasures.