Exerting Forces Too Great for Human Power, and Executing, Operations Too Delicate for Human Touchby@charlesbabbage

Exerting Forces Too Great for Human Power, and Executing, Operations Too Delicate for Human Touch

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56. It requires some skill and a considerable apparatus to enable many men to exert their whole force at a given point; and when this number amounts to hundreds or to thousands, additional difficulties present themselves. If ten thousand men were hired to act simultaneously, it would be exceedingly difficult to discover whether each exerted his whole force, and consequently, to be assured that each man did the duty for which he was paid. And if still larger bodies of men or animals were necessary, not only would the difficulty of directing them become greater, but the expense would increase from the necessity of transporting food for their subsistence.
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