The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 57
poorer people are now the purchasers. It would be D 34 THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. useless, therefore, to spend time in the manufacture of a well-finished and ornamented quern, because it would find no buyer.The wealthier of the community get their meal from thesouth, or they send their oats to be… … Fig. 29.—Quern from North Yell. the sending of corn to mills at a distance would prove diffi-cult, continue to employ the quern. Thus again it is seenthat when a contrivance, which has been widely used, diesout, it does so by a process of degradation; and it followsthat when a rudely made quern is…
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