Excerpt from Ships, Shipping and Fishing: With Some Account of Our Seaports and Their Industries
The books in this Series deal with the industrial and commercial condition of our country. Of the importance of the subject there can be doubt or it is the story of the material side of the life of a great nation. British agriculture is the most enterprising in the world; British manufactures, both textile and hardware, are famed in all parts of the globe; British ships are on every sea and carry for other nations as well as for ourselves; and Britain, though the Banks and Exchanges of London, is the centre of the money market of the world.
It has been well said that material needs cannot be neglected or forgotten with impunity in this world. Just as a man must have bread to eat if he wishes to enjoy life, so a nation needs material prosperity if it is to be of real influence in the world. Industrial and commercial prosperity does not in itself, constitute greatness, but it is a condition without which national greatness is impossible. Hence, the story of the industrial and commercial condition of Britain is worth telling to our school children, not only that they may rejoice in our country progress, but, also, that they may realise the responsibilities borne by the citizens of the first of all nations.
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