Excerpt from The Complete Cabinet Maker: And Upholsterer's Guide

The very great improvement to which the arts and manufactures of this country have attained, within the last fifty years, renders it essential that every person engaged therein should use his utmost endeavours to obtain a perfect knowledge of the trade or art which he professes to follow.

- The workmen of the last century were, comparatively speaking, but with few exceptions, mechanical beings, who worked by rule, unguided by any scientific principles, and followed step by step the beaten track of their ancestors: the workmen of the present day have the road of science opened for them, the clue of knowledge is unwound to the enquiring mind, but unless industry and perseverence accompany them in the pursuit of information, they will never obtain sufficient to justify a pretension even to a mediocre knowledge of the principles of their respective arts.

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