Mere quantity will never count;

Quality is the thing that matters."

Broadly this precept, too, was laid

On grosser forms of human labour;

E.g., on Jones's antique trade,

Or Brown, the sausage-man, his neighbour;

Until of late, throughout a land

Reeling from strikes and "reconstruction,"

A cry was heard on every hand,

A clamour for "Increased Production."