156 M.^CHINE TOR SHOEMAKERS. 



horizontal while at work ; but those who cut ivory combs sit 



very nearly upright. 



Other arts are Many other examples might be given, not only of works 



wSi^!?ur *"u) ^'^'<^^' ^^^ practically shewn to be capable of being executed 



health, with less injury to the comfort and health of the professors 



than at present; but of others where th« mischiefs- are no less 



evident, and their remedies by no means difficult, if man 



could be, by the gentle influence of reason, induced to depart 



from what habit has confirmed and made easy. 



Shoemaking is The numerous bodily complaints which are consequent to 



an I! n heal thy ^j^^ practice of the art of shoe-making, as now performed, are 



well known to all ; and the remedies in this, as well as other 



branches of human industry, are intitled to general regard. 



He who improves the cultivation of the ground, or renders 



human labour more productive by machinery, is intitled to 



universal gratitude as a benefactor of the human race : He 



increases their comfort^;, and renders the means of subsistence 



It is deserving rnore easy. The same argument will apply to every man who 

 of general at- , , . . . , . . ' i n i- • • i i -i i • i 



tention to ini- ''y "'*' mgcuuity or his innuence shall dimmish the evils which 



prove the prac- may be ultimately attendant on a life of labour. Thomas UoU 



tice of the arts. , , , • "n i /• i- i ,• ,- 



1 hoiiias Hoi- ^^^ has been impelled, tor his own personal reliet, to construct 



dcu's machine, and use a simple machine for one branch of his craft. The 

 master shoemakers and their masters, or employers, will act 

 meritoriou^-ly in extending its use. As the editor of a Journal 

 of the Arts, I have thought it my duty in this, as in most other 

 instances, to second the views of that excellent Society, which 

 has been solongestabhshed in London, and has so actively and 

 constantly exerted itself for their encouragement. 



Statement of Mr. Nicholas Turner, who addressed the Society on behalf 



Its advantages, ^^f ^ijjs niachine, speaking highly in its commendation, says 

 that its cost will not be more than from between twenty and 

 thirty shillings. The inventor himself, after stating his suffer- 

 ings from the pursuit of his business as a maker of shoes, says 

 that he has found it to answer, and its use to have been follow- 

 ed by a restoration of his health. When he wrote his letter, 

 he had made about two thousand pair of shoes with it, and he 

 considers it as the quickest way of closing all the thread-vvork. 



Ctrtificates, Certificates were also sent to the Society,, from six cord- 



waincrs of the vicinity, who were witness to the use and advan- 



tage&- 



