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Updated: May 15, 2025
The streets were full of servants. The girls stood about in groups, their arms round one another's waists, staring with burning eyes at the cotton-stuffs displayed in the shops; they rocked themselves gently to and fro as though they were dreaming.
If physical discoveries produced only physical or economic results if the invention of printing had only produced more books, and more knowledge if the invention of gunpowder had only caused more or less men to be killed if the invention of the spinning-jenny had only produced more cotton-stuffs, more employment, and therefore more human beings, then their effects would have been, however complex, more or less subjects of exact computation.
The healths of her Majesty, the Sultan, and the King of Prussia, were drunk in champagne with enthusiasm. There were thirty or forty dishes on the table, and among them a turkey, the first ever killed in this city. Mr. Gagliuffi had recently brought a cock and hen from Tripoli. A small saloon was decorated with banners and cotton-stuffs of Soudan, with various devices.
A much abler work, Izuma Fudoki, speaks of Cape Kitsuki in Izumo as a place where cotton-stuffs were imported from Shiragi by Omitsu, son of Susanoo.
The streets were full of servants. The girls stood about in groups, their arms round one another's waists, staring with burning eyes at the cotton-stuffs displayed in the shops; they rocked themselves gently to and fro as though they were dreaming.
To be awakened from that disdainful sleep of twenty centuries and made to carry the floating barracks of Thomas Cook & Son, to feed sugar factories, and to exhaust itself in nourishing with its mud the raw material for English cotton-stuffs. It is the month of March, but as gay and splendid as in our June. Around us are fields of corn, of lucerne, and the flowering bean.
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