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For the more rapid the growth of a spirit of industrial invention and improvement, of social and political reform, the wider becomes the gap between stationary and progressive nations, and the more dangerous it is to remain on the further side.

— Friedrich List The National System of Political Economy (1841)

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The world has not been hindered in its progress, but immensely aided in it, by England.

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Finally, a nation should not regard the progress of industries from a purely economic point of view. Manufactures become a very important part of the nation‘s political and cultural heritage.

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The nation … must sacrifice some present advantages in order to insure to itself future ones.

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