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making, he will generally not trouble his head about the gratification. A weaver does not think much whether the linen cloth he is making is to bandage a wound, or tie up a pudding, be formed into a moneybag, or be a part of a screen. It may be of such peculiar texture as to be suited only for a single purpose; but if so, the weaver very likely will not know what that purpose is. His art is to weave and not to [compose??] fabrics for special purposes. He takes his order and executes it.

There are men whose art is of a higher kind. Take a shipbuilder. He will build you any kind of vessel you want. He does not do it with his own hands; but from your description of what you want, he can tell whom to go to for aid in the design, what workmen to employ, where to make the necessary purchases, and how to raise the money. He knows in a general way what the ship is to carry, whether passengers, fruit, animals, this or that kind of freight. But he does not in most cases care to inquire

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