They are a more perfect product--show a more perfect adaptation of means to end.

This does not save them from disesteem and deprecation, for they fall short under the test of honorific waste.

Hand labor is a more wasteful method of production; hence the goods turned out by this method are more serviceable for the purpose of pecuniary reputability; hence the marks of hand labor come to be honorific, and the goods which exhibit these marks take rank as of higher grade than the corresponding machine product.

Commonly, if not invariably, the honorific marks of hand labor are certain imperfections and irregularities in the lines of the hand-wrought article, showing where the workman has fallen short in the execution of the design.

The ground of the superiority of hand-wrought goods, therefore, is a certain margin of crudeness.