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and they have entered it with all the energy 

 of youth. Both countries enjoy a widely- 

 spread scientifically- technical or, at least, con- 

 crete scientific education. In both countries 

 manufactories are built according to the newest 

 and best models which have been worked out 

 elsewhere ; and both countries are in a period 

 of awakening in all branches of activity 

 literature and science, industry and commerce. 

 They enter now on the same phase in which 

 Great Britain was in the first hah 1 of the nine- 

 teenth century, when British workers took such 

 a large part in the invention of the wonderful 

 modern machinery. 



We have simply before us a fact of the conse- 

 cutive development of nations. And instead of 

 decrying or opposing it, it would be much 

 better to see whether the two pioneers of the 

 great industry Britain and France cannot 

 take a new initiative and do something new 

 again ; whether an issue for the creative genius 

 of these two nations must not be sought for in a 

 new direction namely, the utilisation of both 

 the land and the industrial powers of man for 

 securing well-being to the whole nation instead 

 of to the few. 



