Les Arts et les Industries du papier en France 1871-1894

The poetry of industry is so intense, so powerful, that the worker himself experiences its sensation. It is this poetry that, despite the crushing labor and perpetual danger, the misery and death, makes him love his trade and instills pride in him. It is also "The Eternal Song," the social philosophy that comforts and delights him. Through it, he gains the awareness and joy that from this transformation of matter, from this industrial birth, painful, bloody, and sometimes deadly, a product, a work, has emerged, bearing something of his flesh, his brain, and his heart, of his thought and his ideal, and which will fulfill a mission in life, bringing pleasure, wealth, and glory to his family, his country, and humanity." Author's afterword. Superb copy. Rare.