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Rh the carding frame, the spinning frame, the furnace, the crucible, the open hearth, the steam hammer, the rolling mill, the hydraulic press, and the others of the long catalogue. Man became a cyclops. Our manufactures, our commerce, our shipping, our numbers, swelled to modern figures. We traded everywhere, we founded nations, we mastered nature. It was Prometheus unbound.

So, to one looking over the tortuous maze of London, the reason why we had risen thus far seemed clear. England had shaken man's authority and founded freedom. Free England had shaken nature's authority and founded industrialism. Hereby, in her morning and at her noonday, our revolutionary England had led the world. And now, as the afternoon widens before her, whither shall she lead it next?