The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 37
s a little ball or pellet ofunbaked clay. The lower end of the spindle rests usually ona piece of shell, because, slender and light as the apparatus is,it is nevertheless too heavy to hang by the delicate thread. All this is in one sense rude enough. A slender piece ofbamboo, a little ball of… … 14 THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. equal, much less to surpass. With all our machinery andwondrous appliances we have hitherto been unable to produce a fabric which for fineness orutility can equal the WovenAir of Dacca—the productof arrangements which appearrude and primitive, but whichin reality are…
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