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fact, Paris is a great bee-hive where hundreds 

 of thousands of men and women fabricate in 

 small workshops all possible varieties of goods 

 which require skill, taste and invention. These 

 small workshops, in which artistic finish and 

 rapidity of work are so much praised, neces- 

 sarily stimulate the mental powers of the 

 producers ; and we may safely admit that if 

 the Paris workmen are generally considered, 

 and really are, more developed intellectually 

 than the workers of any other European capital, 

 this is due to a great extent to the character 

 of the work they are engaged in a work 

 which implies artistic taste, skill, and especi- 

 ally inventiveness, always wide awake in order 

 to invent new patterns of goods and steadily 

 to increase and to perfect the technical methods 

 of production. It also appears very probable 

 that if we find a highly developed working 

 population in Vienna and Warsaw, this depends 

 again to a very great extent upon the very 

 considerable development of similar small 

 industries, which stimulate invention and so 

 much contribute to develop the worker's in- 

 telligence. 



the factories (grande Industrie), while 522,349 were living on the 

 petty trades (petite Industrie). Maxime clu Camp, Paris et ses 

 Organes, vol. vi. It is interesting to note that of late the small 

 workshops where some of the finest work is made in metals, 

 wood, and so on, have begun to be scattered round Paris. 



