History Of The Cotton Manufacture In Great Britain

Author : Edward Baines
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ISBN 13 : 9781331236122
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain written by Edward Baines and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain: With a Notice of Its Early History in the East, and in All the Quarters of the Globe The history of civilization consists greatly ill the history of the Useful Arts. These arts form the basis of social improvement. By their means men are raised above abject want, become possessed of comforts and luxuries, and acquire the leisure necessary to cultivate the higher departments of knowledge. There is also an intimate connexion between the arts and natural science. Mutually aiding each other, they go hand in hand in the course of improvement. The manufactory, the laboratory, and the study of the natural philosopher, are in close practical conjunction. Without the aid of science, the arts would be contemptible: without practical application, science would consist only of barren theories, which men would have no motive to pursue. These remarks apply with peculiar force to the arts by which clothing is produced, and, above all, to the Cotton Manufacture of England, which is the very creature of mechanical invention and chemical discovery, and which has, in its turn, rendered the most important service to science, as well as increased the wealth and power of the country. The subject of this volume may therefore claim attention from the man of science and the political philosopher, as well as from the manufacturer and merchant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.