THE HISTORY OF COMMERCE
falling into his possession. There are clear evidences that this mood, so injurious to her own interests, is being replaced by more liberal sentiments, but in the mean while she has been induced to stand aloof from alien aids at a time when they might have profited her immensely, and to struggle without guidance towards standards of which she has as yet only a dim perception. Already, too, some of the advantages of cheap labour[1] and inexpensive living are disappearing, and, on the whole, there seems to be little doubt that though great manufacturing successes lie before her, she will take many years to realise them.
- ↑ See Appendix, note 68.
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