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Excerpt from The Oil Conquest of the World
Probably few of the treasures of Nature are exercising such a vast transformation upon the complex social and industrial activity of the community as oil. Comparatively speaking, it is only Within the past few years that the signifi cance of this material has become realized, because it has effected its advance so silently and unostentatiously.
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