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As to mass-production, this is no new thing. All use of machinery has, of course, tended to mass-production. But the process goes much further back. The carpenter's plane bears much the same relation to the adze that the safety razor does to the older sort (which I confess I am conservative enough still to use),
AN OPERATING THEATRE.
WALSH & MADDOCK, ARCHITECTS and in both cases the more modern tool achieves what we may call a mass-produced surface. And printing began merely as mass-produced writing. We have been burdened in this country with a timid Arts and Crafts movement, which has inevitably helped to obscure and deny the real virtues of mass-production; but this feeling, though it still lingers, is negligible, and even "artistic" people may now enjoy without apology the admirable products of mass-production.