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(1851) Author: H. C. Andersen
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The perspiration oozes out of one's fingers'-ends:
one turns and turns, bows, and knows not 
one's self, from pure respect for the human 
thought which here has iron limbs. And yet the 
large iron hammer goes on continually with its 
heavy strokes: it is as if it said: "Banco, 
Banco! many thousand dollars; Banco, pure 
gain! Banco! Banco!" -- Hear it, as I heard 
it; see, as I saw! 

The old gentleman from Trollhätta walked 
up and down in full contemplation; bent and 
swung himself about; crept on his knees, and 
stuck his head into corners and between the 
machines, for he would know everything so 
exactly; he would see the screw in the propelling 
vessels, understand their mechanism and effect 
under water -- and the water itself poured like 
hail-drops down his forehead. He fell 
unconscious, backwards into my arms, or else he would
have been drawn into the machinery, and been 
crushed: he looked at me, and pressed my hand. 

"And all this goes on naturally," said he;
"simply and comprehensibly. Ships go against 



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