This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.

Of iron

Men of Invention and Industry (1884) ch. 4

Samuel Smiles Quotes

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society.