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Updated: May 14, 2025
An expert tool juggler in one of the great English needle factories, in a recent test of skill, performed one of the most delicate mechanical feats imaginable. Another workman in a watch-factory of the United States drilled a hole through a hair of his beard and ran a fiber of silk through it.
The result was that the workers in the watch-factory and silk-mills who were Catholics found themselves ostracized by the Protestant workmen. I do not find that the authorities drove the Catholics out of Geneva, it was simply a species of labor trouble Protestants would not work with Catholics.
At this juncture Voltaire comes in, and invites all persecuted Catholic watch-workers and silk-weavers to move to Ferney. Here Voltaire laid out a town erected houses, factories, churches and schools. In two years he had built up a town of twelve hundred people, and had a watch-factory and silk-mill in full and paying operation.
While it was yet ticking, the train stopped at West Newton, and we stepped out upon the platform. The station nearest to the Watch-Factory is that at Waltham upon the Fitchburg Railroad; but by taking the Worcester cars to West Newton, you secure a pleasant drive of a mile or two across the country.
He sent watches to all of his enemies in Paris, bishops, priests and potentates, explaining that he had quit literature forever, and was now engaged in helping struggling, exiled Catholics to get an honest living he was doing penance as foreman of a watch-factory would the Most Reverend not help in this worthy work?
"That is the position of a nation with the hand of another upon its throat. Do I tire you?" ticked my watch. "Not at all. I am listening intently, and trying to see what you are coming to," I answered. "We are coming, and very rapidly, to West Newton and the Waltham Watch-Factory," ticked my companion. "I hope so. It was where I understood you to invite me to go," said I. "Courage, my friend!
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