Note 31 — Henri Pirenne

See, in Cunningham, The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times, p. 618, this citation from P. Gaskell: "Few of the men who entered the trade rich were successful. They trusted too much to others, too little to themselves." Let us recall here that the founder of the largest industrial establishments of Belgium, John Cockerill, was a simple workman. See E. Mahaim, "Les Débuts de l'Établissement John Cockerill à Seraing", Vierteljahrschrift für Social- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1905), p. 627.