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Life o/ N.
original scheme was to spin finer yarn and
manufacture finer cloths, in which Manchester
excelled, as the coarser yarns and cloths were
driven out. So he had the honorable and patri-
otic ambition to compete with Lancashire in
the finer goods so as to materially reduce the
imports. Given the requisite class of men
and the needed capital and enterprise and it
was his settled conviction that in the long run
India, as of yore, would become her own
manufacturer of all kinds of cloth and even be
a large exporter. The golden vision of the days
when she was the sole maker of all the finer
goods which had brought fame to her primi-
tive handloom weavers was ever before his
eyes. In divers directions, he was unstint-
ing in his expenditure on trials and tests.
The ring spindle found in him the first and the
firmest friend notably when the greatest
scepticism prevailed among the older makers
of machinery. But undaunted he fearlessly
introduced that new spindle which replaced
the throstle and proved to those very manu-
facturers what a revolution that spindle
would make. His prophecy, based on his
personal experience, derived at great cost, has
been amply verified. The success of the ring
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original scheme was to spin finer yarn and
manufacture finer cloths, in which Manchester
excelled, as the coarser yarns and cloths were
driven out. So he had the honorable and patri-
otic ambition to compete with Lancashire in
the finer goods so as to materially reduce the
imports. Given the requisite class of men
and the needed capital and enterprise and it
was his settled conviction that in the long run
India, as of yore, would become her own
manufacturer of all kinds of cloth and even be
a large exporter. The golden vision of the days
when she was the sole maker of all the finer
goods which had brought fame to her primi-
tive handloom weavers was ever before his
eyes. In divers directions, he was unstint-
ing in his expenditure on trials and tests.
The ring spindle found in him the first and the
firmest friend notably when the greatest
scepticism prevailed among the older makers
of machinery. But undaunted he fearlessly
introduced that new spindle which replaced
the throstle and proved to those very manu-
facturers what a revolution that spindle
would make. His prophecy, based on his
personal experience, derived at great cost, has
been amply verified. The success of the ring
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