Emile Zola's Stirring Talk on Work and Modern Thought
The essay records Emile Zola addressing French students at a Parisian club, urging belief in work over elusive truths. He contrasts science and literature, warns against passive faith, and extols a creed of labor as life’s guiding force, noting poverty, perseverance, and the constant struggle shaping character.
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Inventions of New Portable Drawing and Painting Tools
A gallery of recent inventions includes a portable device for perspective drawing with a half rigid half flexible guide and adjustable lathe holder, a roofing platen painting machine with agitator and adjustable rolls, a pencil made of aluminum wire treated in a chemical bath, and a method to electro deposit metal letters using a nonconducting mold.
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Fragmented notes on society and culture from a 19th century source
A Paris sculptor predicts women will one day be ashamed of small hands. The Legion of Honor counts 45 000 members with only 20 women. Havens relies on Little hornén transportation and a single horse carriage line. Reports describe uncharted canker rocks found by ships and references to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A western judge deranged by overwork becomes a day laborer. A Chicago man observes an elevator shaft near the Washington Monument.
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