The old man gazed after it and then, much excited, he exclaimed.
"It will never stop!" The wisest head is no judge unless it has in it the history of past performances.

I had not studied much history in my brief schooling.

The mills called me because they needed men.

Good times were there when I arrived, and as for hard times, I was sure they "would never start." Now the hard times were upon us and panic shook the ground beneath our feet.
"It will never stop," men cried.

Had they studied the history of such things they would have known that hard times come and hard times go, starting and stopping for definite reasons, like the railway train.
I had done the right thing in quitting school and going to the puddling furnaces at a time when we needed iron more than we needed education.
The proverb says, "Strike while the iron is hot." The country was building, and I gave it iron to build with.