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Charles Babbage

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Charles Babbage

Alone

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Charles Babbage is saying that the knowledge and techniques developed to make manufacturing easier do not only help the country where they were created. Instead, faraway nations also gain benefits from these improvements.

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