History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain - With a Notice of Its Early History in the East, and in All the Quarters of the Globe #223022

These remarks apply with peculiar force to the arts by which clothing is produced, and, above all, to the Cotton Manufacture of England, which is the very creature of mechanical invention and chemical discovery, and which has, in its turn, rendered the most important service to science, as well as increased the wealth and power of the country.