Knowledge Is Power: / A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill.

BY CHARLES KNIGHT.
Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts.
The empire of man over material things has for its only foundation the sciences and the arts. —Bacon.
THE SECOND EDITION.
WITH TWENTY-FOUR ADDITIONAL CUTS OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1859.
The right of Translation is reserved.
Without attempting to give this volume the formal shape of a treatise on Political Economy , it is the wish of the author to convey the broad parts of that science in a somewhat desultory manner, but one which is not altogether devoid of logical arrangement. He desires especially to be understood by the young ; for upon their right appreciation of the principles which govern society will depend much of the security and happiness of our own and the coming time.
LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD-STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.
TO NEIL ARNOTT, ESQ., M.D., WITH SINCERE ADMIRATION OF THE DISINTERESTED SPIRIT IN WHICH HE HAS DEVOTED HIS SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO THE PUBLIC GOOD; AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS NEVER-FAILING KINDNESS DURING A LONG FRIENDSHIP, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
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The Present Edition is Illustrated with Twenty-four additional Cuts, on separate pages, of Manufacturing Processes, &c., which are to be placed as follows:—