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might be made here or in tin vicinity where lnnd can be got cheap. But we do not advise practical men; but we see one thing, that many so-called practical men are not so sagacious as seme other men.Well, here we are in Power Hall. What a clatter and roar of machinery! This is just where we like to be and just where we should like to stay awhile. One of these steam engines is just like a living being,, and what is more, very like a reasoning being. Why not? Man puts his reason into the machine and makes it obey his wiiL It is true it is not remarkably free agency, and rather limited in its sphere of action. But what of that? Is man any better off? Oau he extend his reason beyond the sphere of his knowledge, or perform any action beyond the limit of his powers? Perhaps we best say nothing about that. This machine is not metaphysical, and won’t understand us. Bat, machine I we honor thee! Thou hast performed the work of millions of men, and what should we do without thee? If all the world is to live in citids and towns, how is all the world to get bread to eat, and clothes to wear, and chariots to ride in, if thou dost not plow the field, and thrash the wheat, and weave doth, and dnve the chariot? Machine I thou bast come into the world when there is much to do; when men run to and fro; when philosophers think their grandfathers were monkeys; but, O, machine, you and I know better than -that. Monkeys did not make thee) Monkeys will not direct thee nor feed thee! No; you and I, O, machine, must work on lu a day ef wonderful work to fulfill wonderful ends. Mind directs us both, and the Immortal Mind which made thee will go on ia its glorious work, making the world mere beautiful and „ more happy under the Divine Will.Mofcaow, October 21- E, D. M.
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Cincinnati Semi Weekly Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 25, 1870
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