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Arcane Arts, Artifice, Alchemy, and Metropolitan Industry

Metropolitan modernity in London depends on disciplined artifice. Licensed arcane work, tested manufacture, chemical handling, and selective industry give the capital much of its practical confidence, but they also concentrate new forms of risk in a city already burdened with heat, pressure, crowding, and old masonry.

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