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Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

— James Nasmyth

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We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.

Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

The arrangement we greatly preferred was to employ intelligent, well-conducted young lads, the sons of labourers or mechanics, and advance them by degrees according to their merits.

In all well-conducted concerns the law of "selection of the fittest" sooner or later comes into happy action, when a loyal and attached set of men work together harmoniously for their own advantage as well as for that of their employers.

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

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