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THE present century has witnessed a vast and almost incredible change in the great industries of the world, and in the progress of the arts and manufactures. The causes of this great change are various, though mutually dependent upon each other, such as the cessation of the great wars that had for so long ravaged the continent of Europe, which enabled many of the most vigorous minds to be turned to the arts of peace; the rapid growth of population, which rendered the wants of mankind more pressingly felt; and the more general spread of education, which caused the great discoveries that have enriched this period to be eagerly taken advantage of and adopted.
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Technical Education 1 . Nature 37, 43–47 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037043a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/037043a0