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IS England rapidly losing that commercial and manufacturing supremacy which she has held before all the world for generations past? Is she going the way of Venice, of Florence, of Holland? If so, is it because she feels blindly secure that “what hath been, will be,” neglecting the means on which success in commerce and manufactures in these days depends—means which are being so industriously used by rival nations, that they are rapidly shooting ahead of England on England's own ground?
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Science and Industry . Nature 9, 217–218 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009217a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/009217a0