Samuel Smiles Quote

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


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.