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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: to hold rank with our Brindleys, Watts, and Stephensons. For he
invented (and mind, one man must have invented the thing first, and
by the very nature of it, invented it all at once) an instrument so
singular, unexpected, unlike anything to be seen in nature, that I
wonder it has not been called, like the plough, the olive, or the
vine, a gift of the immortal gods: and yet an instrument so simple,
so easy, and so perfect, that it spread over all races in Europe and
America, and no substitute could be found for it till the latter
part of the fifteenth century. Yes, a great genius was he, and the
consequent founder of a great aristocracy and conquering race, who
first invented for himself and his children after him a--bow and
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