It is asserted by an intelligent economist that, if performed by hand, the work done by machinery in Great Britain would require the labor of seven hundred millions of men,--a far larger number of adults than inhabit the globe.
Blaine cites an economist's view on the labor required if machinery were replaced by manual labor.
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