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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Charles Babbage

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Better Criticism Science
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Fall Mode Power Rise
Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.
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Important Performance Person Principle Work
I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.
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Calculation Execution God Myself
There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.
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Calm Criticism Deserve Philosophy Strong
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
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Economy Human Machine Time
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
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Death Form Head Kind Shoes Tools
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
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Possession Source Wealth
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
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Acceptance Capability Difference Explanation Limitation Machine Tools
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Advantage Country Direction Distance Manufacture Production Science Skills
Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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Appointment Discussion Exercise Money Performance Price
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
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Element Knowledge Man School University Young
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.
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Attachment Discussion Hope Important Interest Subject
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.
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Capability Development Execution Future Guide Machine Necessary Operation Science
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
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Light Necessary Order Time Work
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.
CHARLES BABBAGE

Art Civilization Country Hope Prosperity Strength Success Victory War

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

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