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already now doomed to disappear ; but there 

 are others, on the contrary, which are endowed 

 with a great vitality, and all chances are in 

 favour of their continuing to exist and to 

 take a further development for many years to 

 come. In the fabrication of such textiles as 

 are woven by millions of yards, and can be best 

 produced with the aid of a complicated machin- 

 ery, the competition of the hand-loom against 

 the power-loom is evidently nothing but a 

 survival, which may be maintained for some 

 time by certain local conditions, but finally 

 must die away. 



The same is true with regard to many branches 

 of the iron industries, hardware fabrication, 

 pottery, and so on. But wherever the direct 

 intervention of taste and inventiveness are 

 required, wherever new patterns of goods 

 requiring a continual renewal of machinery and 

 tools must continually be introduced in order 

 to feed the demand, as is the case with all fancy 

 textiles, even though they be fabricated to 

 supply the millions ; wherever a great variety of 

 goods and the uninterrupted invention of new 

 ones goes on, as is the case in the toy trade, 

 hi instrument making, watch-making, bicycle 

 making, and so on ; and finally, wherever the 

 artistic feeling of the individual worker makes 

 the best part of his goods, as is the case in 



