Note 39 — Chapter XVII · POWER OF STEAM AND CONTEMPT OF ARTISANS.
Reading edition
“Brief Biographies: James Watt,” p. 1. By Samuel Smiles. Chicago: Belford, Clark & Co., 1883.
[40] “In short, wherever the refugees settled they acted as so many missionaries of skilled work, exhibiting the best practical examples of diligence, industry, and thrift, and teaching the English people in the most effective manner the beginnings of those various industrial arts in which they have since acquired so much distinction and wealth.”—“The Huguenots,” p. 107. By Samuel Smiles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867.
[41] “Hereditary Genius,” p. 360. By Francis Galton, F.R.S., etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1880.