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Section 39 Our Industrial⁠ Independence Depends Upon Ourselves1

Truer⁠2 words were never uttered than those spoken by Mr. Dargan, the Irish railway-contractor, at a public meeting in Dublin.

“I have⁠3 heard a great deal⁠4,” he said, “about the independence that we are⁠5 to get from this or that source, yet⁠6 I have always been deeply impressed with the conviction, that our industrial independence depends upon ourselves. Simple⁠7 industry and careful exactness would⁠8 be the making of Ireland. We have, it⁠9 is true, made a step in advance, but perseverance is⁠10 indispensably necessary for eventual success.”—S. Smiles.

Notes

1 industriell.

2 A greater truth than that which Mr. D., the Irish railway-contractor (Eisenbahn-Unternehmer), spoke (aus´sprechen) at (in) a public meeting in (zu) Dublin, has never been uttered.

3 The words ‘he said’ should follow here; see S. 32, N. 5.

4 a great deal = much.

5 are to get, erlangen sollen; for the construction see App. § 16; from, aus.

6 yet I have always had the firm conviction. Render ‘to have’ here by hegen.

7 schlicht; ‘industry’, here Fleiß, m.; careful, streng; exactness, Pflichterfüllung, f.

8 would establish (begründen) Ireland’s prosperity (Wohlstand, m.).

9 it is true, zwar; see S. 15, N. 3; ‘to make’, here thun; in advance, vorwärts.

10 Here follow the words ‘for (zu, contracted with the def. art.) eventual (eventuell) success’.