They had no time, since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence, and though, profiting by acquired experience, they had nothing to invent, still they had everything to make; their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of clay, their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material.
Les faltaba tiempo, puesto que debían subvenir inmediatamente a las necesidades de la vida y, si aprovechando la experiencia adquirida no debían inventar nada, tenían por lo menos que fabricarlo todo. Su hierro y su acero se hallaban todavía en estado mineral, su vajilla en estado de barro, sus lienzos y sus vestidos en estado de materias textiles.