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itself there, where the textile industries amalgamate with thechemical—thus in printing, dyeing, bleaching, and finishing—inthat many productions of foreign textile industries are broughtduty free into Germany , to leave the country finished.

In short, Germany has at present dearer labour and dearercapital than England ; but it understands how to wedge itselfinto the world’s market, where not so much the advantages ofcentralised industry nor the skilled machine-labour come intoaccount, but rather where the superior technical, scientific, andart training of its middle classes is decisive.