but, as you compare, and test, and cross-examine, conjecture grows into conviction. You say toyourself: This kind of thing occurs so continually in ironwork, that so constantly in textile fabrics, there must besomething in the nature of the metal or of the stuff, inthe art of smithing, or of… … 23. TWISTED IRON HANDLES AND KNOCKER. It is a mistake to suppose that there is nothing to learnfrom processes which modern mechanical appliances havesuperseded. Methods of work may change, but the natureof materials does not. Many a new device has failed forwant of attention to what the old one…
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