Chapter XXV

What political economy teaches--Skilled labour and trusted
labour--Competition of unskilled labour--Competition of
uncapitalled labour--Itinerant traders--The contrast of
organized industry--Factory-labour and garret-labour--
Communism--Proposals for state organization of labour--
Social Publishing Establishment--Practical co-operation 398

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

1. African Hut 12
2. Robinson Crusoe (from a design by Stothard) 20
3. Dying lion 25
4. Penn's treaty with the Indians 33
5. Pine-marten 37
6. Treasure-finding 45
7. Brindley 63
8. The hock-cart 66
9. Adam Smith 71
10. "Under his own vine" 100
11. Centre of gravity 113
12. A tool made a machine 115
13. Spinning a rope 118
14. Analysis of a cable 119
15. Mill at Guy's Cliff 122
16. Oriental plough 126
17. Clod-crusher 132
18. Scarifier 133
19. Horse-hoe 134
20. Moveable steam-engine and thrashing-machine 135
21. Thrashing-machine with horse-power 136
22. Draining-tile machine 137
23. The first iron bridge, Colebrook Dale 147
24. Rolling bar-iron 149
25. File-cutters 152
26. Cupids forging arrows (from Albani) 156
27. Telford 162
28. Modern Syrian cart 165
29. Brindley's aqueduct over the Irwell 168
30. Railway locomotive 171
31. Reindeer 173
32. Beaver 174
33. Pyramid and sphinx 176
34. Boulton 179
35. Carpenters and their tools (from an old German woodcut) 181
36. Egyptian labour in the brick-field 183
37. Scotch carpet-loom 188
38. Sheet-glass making 192
39. Potter's wheel of modern Egypt 195
40. Moulds for porcelain, and casts 196
41. Wedgwood 197
42. Ancient shadoof 202
43. Conduit in Westcheap 206
44. Old water-carrier of London 208
45. Plug in a frost 209
46. London street-lights, 1760 211
47. Cotton; showing a pod bursting 214
48. Distaff 216
49. A Hindoo woman spinning cotton 217
50. Sir Richard Arkwright 219
51. Arkwright's original spinning-machine 220
52. Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning-mule 222
53. Hindoo weaver at work in a field 228
54. Dr. Cartwright, inventor of the power-loom 229
55. Flemish weaver (from a print of 1568) 230
56. Mechanism of power-loom 242
57. Jacquard cards 243
58. Hanks of silk 247
59. Egyptian winding-reel 247
60. Silk-winding machine 248
61. Indigo-harvest In the West Indies 252
62. Gloves for the great 260
63. Cobbler's stall, about 1760 261
64. Men'seg, or Egyptian embroidery frame 263
65. Bobbin-net meshes 264
66. Essential parts of the bobbin-net machine 265
67. Stamping the eye of a needle 269
68. Stamping, pressing, and punching buttons.--Elliott's
factory 271
69. Envelope-making machine 275
70. Compositor at work 277
71. Machine for fixing tags to laces 278
72. Inclined plane for separating shot 279
73. Candle-dipping machine 281
74. Tiring a wheel 281
75. Harrison 298
76. Greenwich Observatory 299
77. Linnaeus in his Lapland dress 302
78. Elaeis Guineensis, and Cocoa butyracea, yielding palm-oil 306
79. Franklin medal 310
80. Newton 313
81. Ambrose Pare 314
82. Sir Walter Scott (from Sir F. Chantrey's bust) 319
83. Statue of Bacon 322
84. Old hand-gunner 330
85. Carrier-pigeon 332
86. Cowper's printing-machine 335
87. The 'Times' printing-machine 338
88. Papyrus 343
89. Medal to Locke 380
90. Vision of Henry I 381
91. Irish mud cabin 393
92. "Feed the hungry" (from Flaxman) 401
93. Costermonger 407
94. "Pots to mend" 411
95. Statue of Watt 424

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THE PRESENT EDITION IS ILLUSTRATED WITH TWENTY-FOUR
ADDITIONAL CUTS, ON SEPARATE PAGES, OF MANUFACTURING
PROCESSES, &C., WHICH ARE TO BE PLACED AS FOLLOWS:--

Bursting of Dykes. The forces of Nature overcoming the
industry of Man 99
Making ropes by machinery 119
Steam-boiler making 145
Shear and tilt-hammers--Steel Manufacture 151
Ancient lead-mine in Derbyshire 154
Coal-railway 157
Locomotive-engine factory 170
Stone quarry, Portland 177
Timber rafts of the Tyrol 178
Glass-cutting 191
Plate-glass factory 192
The English potter 194
Mill-room of a pottery 196
Cotton mule-spinning 222
Power-looms 229
Jacquard power-looms 241
Interior of Marshall's flax-mill, Leeds 250
Calico-printing by cylinder 252
Bleaching-ground at Glasgow 254
Electro-gilding 311
Pianoforte manufactory 320
Bas-relief on Gutenberg's monument 323
Paper-making by hand 341
Processes of bookbinding 342

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.