. St. Nicholas [serial]. LUMPOOULDD By George Ethelbert Walsh. A century ago most of the labor of theworld was performed by the hard work of manand beast, and both, toiling day after day inthe fields, could just about keep sufficient foodahead to prevent famines and general starva-tion ; but to-day machinery performs most ofthe worlds work. Originally man-power did the worlds work ;then horse-power was employed ; and now ma-chinery, driven by steam, directly or by convert-ing itsenergy into electricity, compressed air,or other sources of power, is doing the greaterpart of the hard work of man
. St. Nicholas [serial]. LUMPOOULDD By George Ethelbert Walsh. A century ago most of the labor of theworld was performed by the hard work of manand beast, and both, toiling day after day inthe fields, could just about keep sufficient foodahead to prevent famines and general starva-tion ; but to-day machinery performs most ofthe worlds work. Originally man-power did the worlds work ;then horse-power was employed ; and now ma-chinery, driven by steam, directly or by convert-ing itsenergy into electricity, compressed air,or other sources of power, is doing the greaterpart of the hard work of man and beast. What is the relative amount of work that aman can do in comparison with a horse or ma-chinery ? At his very best the strongest manstands in pretty poor comparison, even with ahorse, for hard, continuous labor. He mightperform for a few minutes one half horse-powerof work, but to keep this up for any greatlength of time would be impossible. Thus the gain in forcing horses to do a partof the worlds work was enor
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