Excerpt from The Conservative Review, Vol. 5: March, 1901

Taken, injuring no class, increasing all classes and the means of life for all. Individuals may suffer while the change is passing, but that is because they can not or will not conform They are gripped by the new force, to whose ways they can not adjust themselves and from which there is no escape. It is an instance of the mighty solidarity of institutional life, the life of men and nations which can not live in utter isola tion. When the inventions of Hargreaves and Arkwright rendered economically impossible the making of cloth by hand machinery, the weavers turned out and smashed the new power machines that could be operated by steam. Now, after the establishment of the machinery that can be utilized on a great scale in mills, instead of the old kitchen or attic manufacture, has resulted in creating a consumption of cloth as great in proportion to the increased production of it as obtained under the old system, and this even when the pro portion oi the population engaged in the cloth mills is as large as under the domestic system, these results are compre hended and are seen to involve benefit and that only. So, too. Still earlier the introduction of printing and the advent Of modern books must have filled with dismay the monasteries which produced the mediaeval books by manual application of the ink; but now it is seen that the invention of Gutenberg and the improvements thereon in the steam-power and cylin der press have created a market for printed matter quite com mensurate with the increased capacity of the instruments that produce it, and that although a still greater proportion of the population is engaged in that business under the new than was employed under the old regime. Just now, again, some disquiet is caused among the typesetters by the machine process of type-fixing invented by Mergenthaler. Presently the old result will be recorded anew - more and better printed books, both single and periodical, made more cheaply and bought and read more generally; and accordingly a greater number of printing shops and more extensive ones, employing fewer workmen to the volume, but more in the aggregate.

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