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of skill and industry; cabinets full of tools, pieces of mechanism, — 
and various contrivances for facilitating exact workmanship, were — 
on every side now lying useless. ee 
tr. Babbage’s inquiries were not at all restricted to mathemati- 
cal and mechanical subjects. His work on the “ Economy of Man- — 
yfactures and Machiner ,” first published in 1832, is in reality a 2 
fragment of a treatise on Political Economy. Its popularity at the — 
time was great, and, b 
years passed before people generally had any notion of the value — 
of Mr. Babbage’s inquiries 
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is clearly put forth. That Power which can assion laws can 
