Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . e has a gen-ius for making buckwheat cakes. Thatgenius which has been described as an infi-nite capacity for taking pains presides over-every piece of work in Essen; it knowsno great or small, finishing oft* a littlescrew as neatly as a steam-engine. Ev-ery machine seems to represent enthusi-asm. The question whether it is best, oreven safe, for a nation that its materielof war should so largely depend upon aprivate individual can hardly arise inGermany during Alfred Krupps life—probably not during that of his only son,Frederi
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887 . e has a gen-ius for making buckwheat cakes. Thatgenius which has been described as an infi-nite capacity for taking pains presides over-every piece of work in Essen; it knowsno great or small, finishing oft* a littlescrew as neatly as a steam-engine. Ev-ery machine seems to represent enthusi-asm. The question whether it is best, oreven safe, for a nation that its materielof war should so largely depend upon aprivate individual can hardly arise inGermany during Alfred Krupps life—probably not during that of his only son,Frederick Alfred, now childless. I haveno doubt that Mr, Krupp would ratherdie by one of his own guns than sell it tobe used against his Fatherland, love forwhich has largely animated his has been steadily, one may say reli-giously, engaged for over thirty-sevenyears, devoting time, wealth, and excep-tional powers of invention to perfect themeans of building up and defending thepower of his country, to him representingcivilization, and every advance in his art. A .SMITHY ON WHEKLS. AN IRON CITY BESIDE THE RUHR. 509
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