At present, workmen are brought in contact with the machinery with which they work as abruptly as if the present set of industrial implements had been newly created.

They handle the machinery day by day, without any notion of its gradual evolution and growth.

Few of the men who perform the mechanical work in the great factories have any comprehension of the fact that the inventions upon which the factory depends, the instruments which they use, have been slowly worked out, each generation using the gifts of the last and transmitting the inheritance until it has become a social possession.

This can only be understood by a man who has obtained some idea of social progress.

We are still childishly pleased when we see the further subdivision of labor going on, because the quantity of the output is increased thereby, and we apparently are unable to take our attention away from the product long enough to really focus it upon the producer.