Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 30

Having said so much of the importance and the necessity of industry, let us see what uses are made of the advantages derivable from it. It is clear that man would have continued uncivilized but for the accumulations of savings made by his forefathers,--the savings of skill, of art, of invention, and of intellectual culture.

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