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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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