Excerpt from The History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate, And, Other Trades of Wales: With Descriptive Sketches of the Land and the People During the Great Industrial Era Under Review And yet what beginning is there so fitting 2 Ashes to ashes, uttered at the ending of one's history, reminds the bystanders of man's common origin and of his ending - the brilliant intellect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.